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

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

Chic Murray

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• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• My education was very tough.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Education
  • Very
  • Tough

• When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Living
  • Where

• I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • American
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Career
  • Poetry
  • Acting

• The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Political
  • Science

• For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• It's going to take baby steps to see a complete turnaround. But there's been such a positive outcome from seeing it at Fashion Week. Plus-size fashion shows are being more welcomed into Fashion Week, and having more plus-size women in major magazines.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Positive

• I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don't see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Together
  • Guy

• I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

  

  Jason Fried
  • Different
  • Important
  • Why

• When government grows, it breaks the family.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Family

• That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.

  

  Les Aspin

• I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper.

  

  David Brudnoy

• I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Music
  • True
  • Passion

• Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • American
  • Right
  • Privacy

• I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.

  

  Paul Pierce

• The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

  

  Edward Young
  • House
  • Laughter

• We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

  

  Chic Murray
  • House
  • Poor
  • Ultimate