Michael Bacon Quotes
My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.
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Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
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Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way.
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The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
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I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
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Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk me into it, but when I went over and looked at pictures of myself, I thought 'What are they going to lift?' . . Frankly, I think that in the art of aging well there's this sexuality to having those imperfections. It's sensual.
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Acting, for me, was kind of a way of survival, honestly. I'm the baby boy out of four different sisters, and I grew up in a house with so many different personalities that acting was the only way to not go to therapy.
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My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.
