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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My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers and professors.
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Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.
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Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.
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We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.
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You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
