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Iris Murdoch Quotes

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: irish
Birth: July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999

Topics

Men Eating Think Thinking Philosophy

I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live.

Live Someone Doing Nervous Cut Film

Emotional grandeur, rendered in the vernacular, has been Mona Simpson's forte. In her novels, 'Anywhere but Here,' 'The Lost Father' and 'A Regular Guy,' Simpson wrote wide and long and high about the most profound human bonds: parents and children lost each other, found each other, lost each other again, but differently.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Father Children Parents Long Lost

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

Shirley Chisholm

Time Conflict House Will Two Rights

To associate my name with the United Nations is the best thing that could have happened to me.

Best Me Name United Nations Happened

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

Masaharu Morimoto

Food Best People Ask Just Rely

I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but as business people. A lot of us are investing and trying to use social media. It is such an interesting level of responsibility and engagement on all these levels. I don't know how one can do this without absolute commitment and faith.

Love Business Faith Responsibility

Where I went to high school at was a predominantly white town, and I definitely got pulled over a number of times for driving in the wrong car on the wrong side of town. As you get older, you start to realize that at any moment, there could be a trigger, and that could be you in that situation.

Car Moment School Start High School

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

Great Me Chance Facts Interesting

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

Fear Day Learn Heaven New One Day

I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

Truth Truth Is Think Care You Say

I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.

Love I Am Seeing Cultures Content

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

Culture American Friends Difficult

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