Donald G. Mitchell Quotes
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.
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To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.
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When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.'
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
