Michael Arndt Quotes
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That's the dream.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.
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Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
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Speed isn't everything; you gotta look cool on the touge too.
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Because there are no fours.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.
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The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.
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Denial, they say, stands for "Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.
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Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.
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I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that.
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When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
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It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.
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My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.