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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.


Wendi Deng Murdoch

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RUPERT MURDOCH It's devastating. We wanted that bronze medal every bit as much as we wanted to win the semi-final. ...
DAVID MURDOCH Regardless of their record coming into the tournament, they beat the top teams in this tournament. T...
AMANDA MURDOCH We let down a little bit tonight and I know all the other girls feel the same. We're going to come b...
AMANDA MURDOCH We let up a little bit, but it was fun to start with the other three seniors. We all played together...
AMANDA MURDOCH Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accur...
IRIS MURDOCH I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the f...
RUPERT MURDOCH Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and livel...
IRIS MURDOCH Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.
IRIS MURDOCH Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story
IRIS MURDOCH The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitu...
IRIS MURDOCH Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins
IRIS MURDOCH One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats
IRIS MURDOCH We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing
IRIS MURDOCH We do recognize the fact that the share price at the moment is rotten, ... There's some disconnect b...
RUPERT MURDOCH No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be he...
RUPERT MURDOCH For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my ...
RUPERT MURDOCH I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
IRIS MURDOCH I don't know what Icahn thinks he's doing. Icahn has gone out on a limb. Even if he succeeds in gett...
RUPERT MURDOCH No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral r...
RUPERT MURDOCH I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never...
RICHARD MURDOCH Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I en...
RUPERT MURDOCH I think it's too early to comment on that. I think you can certainly discern that we would certainly...
RUPERT MURDOCH We said it was currently a policy of the board not to exit it (the poison pill) without going to sha...
RUPERT MURDOCH From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they w...
RUPERT MURDOCH There has been no outcry,
RUPERT MURDOCH There has been no outcry, I've had hundreds of phone calls, there has been one call about the poison...
RUPERT MURDOCH Should Yahoo have betrayed a source like that? ... I think they were wrong.
RUPERT MURDOCH Is there any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the custome...
RUPERT MURDOCH It will happen either in the last part of the year or the first month of next year,
RUPERT MURDOCH It has the fastest growing audience. More importantly, broadband proliferation is at last real, mean...
RUPERT MURDOCH Hopefully we will continue to improve our profits and improve our dividend.
RUPERT MURDOCH Here (in the United States), we don't know. We may be forming a company with partners to build somet...
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