David H. Murdock Quotes

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

David H. Murdock

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• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

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• You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

  

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• I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

  

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• Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

  

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• Here I stand, I'm your man.

  

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• You've got to know who you are before you step into this business, because if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being somebody else, that you probably don't even like. 2

  

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• I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

  

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• Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

  

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• Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

  

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• Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.

  

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• The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.

  

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• That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

  

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• If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

  

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• I tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.

  

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• I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

  

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• Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

  

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• I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.

  

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• When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
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• This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."

  

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• For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'

  

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• A Las Vegas show is all-round entertainment. Which means there's some singing, some dancing, some magic, some drama - everything is rolled into that one performance.

  

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• North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

  

  David H. Murdock
  • Thanksgiving