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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.


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DAVID MURDOCH We've beaten all our opposition at different times, so we know we are capable of beating them on the...
DAVID MURDOCH Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH The whole rationale is being driven by the consumer. They want the whole home solution with the best...
JAMES MURDOCH We've reached a point where integration into a home entertainment platform will be both viable and a...
JAMES MURDOCH This positions Sky very well to take a leading position in what we think is a very attractive and fa...
JAMES MURDOCH Today?s offer reflects the exciting opportunities that now exist to combine quality entertainment wi...
JAMES MURDOCH Taiwan is Asia's most well-established and vibrant cable market,
JAMES MURDOCH I am sure he will help us build Sky's reputation as the nation's number one entertainment choice,
JAMES MURDOCH I fully intend to be here for the long term. It is a strategy that's going to take a lot of work. I'...
JAMES MURDOCH My hope and my intention is that as long as the board is satisfied with the work that I'm doing that...
JAMES MURDOCH I fully intend to be here (at Sky) in the long term, I'm fully committed. So you're stuck with me,
JAMES MURDOCH [It will] blow people backwards out of their living room.
JAMES MURDOCH The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasin...
IRIS MURDOCH The things most likely to get earwigs are dahlias.
RICHARD MURDOCH I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there...
JAMES MURDOCH If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.… there is something you must always remember....
EMILY MURDOCH Wood is weirdly a big passion of mine. I really love it, all the way from trees to a finished table....
RUPERT FRIEND Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that succes...
RUPERT HOLMES I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar,...
RUPERT GRAVES You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.
RUPERT FRIEND Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But...
RUPERT BROOKE Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindlin...
RUPERT BROOKE All the little emptiness of love!
RUPERT BROOKE