Michael Cerveris Quotes
My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
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I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.
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I can't stand small babies. I would rather give birth to a kitten or a colt... a little pony.
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One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
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Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
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Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.
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If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.
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I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.
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I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
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People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.
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There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.
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Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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'A long white dress that starts under the breast and travels on interminably down - so their legs are entirely mysterious - they could have one leg or two inside that dress... A Jane Austen woman could be incredibly passionate inside that dress.'
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My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.
