Michael Baden Quotes
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.
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For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
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Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.
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I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.
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Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.
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It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.
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I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.
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I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.
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The people who died were hit by shrapnel.
