Michael Birch Quotes
I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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Money is just a way of keeping score.
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Americans do not have a good track record when it comes to preparing for disasters, unless they see a clear possibility of personally being in harms way.
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I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
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I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.
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My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?
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When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.
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If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
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Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
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Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.
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I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.
