J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

J. Michael Straczynski

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• Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

  

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• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

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• I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.

  

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• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.

  

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• We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

  

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• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  

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• In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

  

  Adam Michnik
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• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

  

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• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

  

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• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

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• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

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• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
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• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

  

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• I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• I have a love for boxing.

  

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• Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.

  

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• We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.

  

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• If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

  

  S. N. Goenka
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• You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

  

  Don Nelson
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• I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Choices
  • Tears
  • Product