George Murray Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Let us have peace.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
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In my painting, negative space is never arbitrary. (I believe lithographs to be colored marks printed on a ground – the paper and the measure of the ground and the marks are to be considered of equal importance). In my painting, the painting is the subject rather than the subject the painting.
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Getting books out into the world helps us all.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.
