Chic Murray (Charles Thomas McKinnon "Chic" Murray) Quotes

A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

Chic Murray

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• I love to cook. I could never give that up.

  

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• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
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• One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

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• I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

  

  Laura Riding
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• 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.

  

  Gary Numan
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• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
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• Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
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• When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • People
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• Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.

  

  Samantha Fox
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• The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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  • Friends
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• My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others the way I live so that hopefully they follow. I can also tell about my experiences as a Christian so that I may help bring others to Christ.

  

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• I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

  

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• I didn't always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.

  

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• The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

  

  Christopher Lasch
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• Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

  

  James C. Collins
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• You're confident (when he's on the mound. He's one of the top five starters in the game. You don't expect to lose that game.

  

  Craig Biggio
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  • Do Not

• Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really.

  

  Amy Poehler
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• Of course I'm totally biased, but I think my mom is an amazing educator. She continues to work tirelessly for the kids in her classes, year after year - despite the innumerable obstacles she faces. She is a huge inspiration to me.

  

  Kandyse McClure
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• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
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• In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton's traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, 'Americans are huge.'

  

  Amy Chozick
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• A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

  

  Chic Murray
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Hands