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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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.
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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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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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.
