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

I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you."

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• I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Fun
  • Water
  • Sports

• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
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• Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Time
  • Long
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• A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Story
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• We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
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• In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

  

  Samuel Alexander
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• People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • People
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• The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • People
  • Fly

• It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • House

• Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Soul
  • Friend
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• It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Thinking

• If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.

  

  David Filo
  • Important
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• Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Time
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• I love Madhuri Dixit, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Sandra Bullock.

  

  Pooja Hegde

• When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

  

  David Antin
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• I usually wake up really early because I keep myself on East Coast time.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
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  • Time

• It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.

  

  John Rampton
  • Job

• Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

  

  Meg Ryan
  • Mind
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• One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.

  

  Lena Headey
  • Up
  • Real
  • Scary

• Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Friendship

• Tanzania sells about 50 million pounds of coffee a year to coffee-shop chains such as Starbucks and Peet's. But Sweet Unity is the only finished, branded product from the East African country to be sold directly in the U.S.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Country
  • Sweet
  • Coffee

• Scripts don't get movies made.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie

• I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you."

  

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