Martin Durkin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.
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The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.
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Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.
-- Martin Durkin
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Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
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If you carry around anger and ugly emotions it will show on your face.
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
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[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.
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I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.
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Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.
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