Martin Durkin quotes

“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.”
-- Martin Durkin

Source : "The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 18, 2007.

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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.”
-- Martin Durkin

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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.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

“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.”

“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.”

Source : "The Dirt on Aaron Paul". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. July 12, 2012.

“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.”

“You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?”

Source : Alfred Jarry (2007). “The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“If you carry around anger and ugly emotions it will show on your face.”

“None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.”

“[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.”

“I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.”

Source : They're not laughing now ..., www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

“Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.”