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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My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
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It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'
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I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his father's weaponry collection is there as well.
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It's becoming more and more the choice to feed starving countries.
