Chic Murray (Charles Thomas McKinnon "Chic" Murray) Quotes
My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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Conservation of energy also protects our environment.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
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Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.
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I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.
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It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag, a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label 'Lebanese,' preferring the less restrictive 'Levantine' designation.
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Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
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I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.
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I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life.
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The man is a complete wackadoo, but so is every great actor who ever lived. You gotta separate the artist from his/her art, or you won't be able to enjoy anything.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
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But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.
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My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.
