Michael Douglas Quotes
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
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If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.
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If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
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I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.
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I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
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Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.
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Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
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A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
