Duane Michals Quotes
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
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In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.
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Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.
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When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
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Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
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Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
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Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
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'No gold or platt I was simply red from the years i been holdin' back'
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Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
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Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.
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I try to be the best man I can for the day.
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In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
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To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
