Michael Birch Quotes
People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I am a just man.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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I believe in creative visualization.
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
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The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him.
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Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
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I had a spectacular four years as OpenTable CEO and remain an active executive chairman. I think, for me, some of the interesting observations there are, you know, global is important, mobile is extremely important. And then, network businesses are very attractive.
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One heart cannot serve two masters.
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I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.
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People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.
