Michael Dirda Quotes
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I love red or deep purple lips for events.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
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You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.
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I did not grow up singing Yiddish.
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I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.
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I do not remember when I said this [oil production would collapse ], maybe in the heat of the moment, but I do not think I even said it, but I may just not remember it. I was saying that at a certain level of oil prices new deposits will not be explored. That is what is actually happening. However, surprisingly, our oil and gas workers [mainly oilmen] continue to invest.
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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
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Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
