Frank Muir Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.
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Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.
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The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
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It's becoming more and more the choice to feed starving countries.
