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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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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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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When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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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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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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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 was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know.
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Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.
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An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
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Kippers : fish that like a lot of sleep.
