Michael King famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.
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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
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When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
-- Michael King
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[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way...
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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
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How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
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She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
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Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.
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I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.
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There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.
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I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.
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I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.
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