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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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
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I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
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If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.
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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.
