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 have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  

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

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
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• You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • You
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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.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Good
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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.

  

  Ma Jun
  • High
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• Here I stand, I'm your man.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Man
  • Here
  • Your

• 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

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Up
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• In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Heart
  • Identity

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

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • World
  • American
  • Ethics

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

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Cute

• 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.

  

  James Henry Breasted
  • Today
  • Childhood

• 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.

  

  Edward M. Lerner

• 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.

  

  Anibal Cavaco Silva
  • World
  • High
  • Trust

• 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.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Life

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

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Tired

• 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.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • People
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Creativity

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

  

  Blanche Lincoln
  • Fighting

• 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."

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Father
  • House

• I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Work
  • Water
  • Transportation

• I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it's a disagreement I'm having with myself. I can see both sides of the argument.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

• Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Music
  • Words

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

  

  David H. Murdock
  • Thanksgiving