Chic Murray (Charles Thomas McKinnon "Chic" Murray) Quotes
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
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When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
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I put castor oil in my eyebrows. And I also tint my eyebrows when I get them cleaned up. That way, I don't have to be constantly filling them in, because I'm lazy.
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Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
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By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
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I never made up any investor. I never made up Paul Abrams.
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Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.
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I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
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The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.
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We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.
Antony Sher -
If you are feeling some December blues, or even depression, don't fight it. Instead, do something for yourself. Be reflective. Let the emotions exist. And be encouraged that, like me, you can get to a better place, but it can take time.
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In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day. But what made the event so successful was that I was only one of about 20 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds who got involved.
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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Kippers : fish that like a lot of sleep.
