Michael Crichton Quotes
You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
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Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.
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I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.
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Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.
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We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.
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I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?
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Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.
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It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance.
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Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
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I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
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I will serve the people in a very humble way.
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You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
