Michael Birch Quotes
I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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I want to behave more like a boy... I want to be the strong one.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
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I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.
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When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
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Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.
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Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.
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Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos.
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A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.
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I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.
