Frank Muir Quotes
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.
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I've always gone for the more understated look.
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I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
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It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
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I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.
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Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second.
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For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.
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I'm a really goofy person most of the time, and I have to sometimes temper my hyper self on set.
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My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.
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I never thought about branding when we were starting our production company.
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Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
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Mobility in India is going to be different from the West. In America, people would look at an autorickshaw and say, 'This is a passing thing.' But in India, you know it will stay because it is fast and convenient.
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Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.
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She gave the most stirring speeches, ... and she was never afraid to ask for money. Once when I was speaking at a rally, she grabbed the mike and told me to be more forceful in my fund-raising pitch. The crowd loved it; I think we raised $90,000 that day.
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Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
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The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.
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The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.
