Frank Muir Quotes
The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
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Once, I tried to channel my inner Pocahontas and wore a lot of Navajo prints, a lot of beige, fringe, and suede... I wish I hadn't done that.
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It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.
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Why can't I just be a running back?
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I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'
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To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
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I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.
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Everyone thinks I like to sleep. It's not that I like to sleep, it's that I don't like to get up! There is a difference.
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Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.
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My mom always told me to follow my bliss. And I remember specifically with my father, when I was out of school and not knowing how I'd get a job or make money - should I take some classes? What do I do? He said as long as I was working - to enrich myself in some way - that I was on the right path.
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Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.
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I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
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The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.
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My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. Even within Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants.
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We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.
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The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat.
