Michael Bacon Quotes
When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
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A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
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There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.
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In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.
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I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.
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When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.
