Michael Arad Quotes
New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.
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I love doing stand-up, and the more you do outside of stand-up to raise your profile, the better your stand-up becomes in terms of the quality of gigs.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
