Michael Douglas Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
-
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.
-
I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
-
I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
-
I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
-
When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
-
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.
-
All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
-
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.
-
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
-
If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.
-
If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.
-
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
-
The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it.
-
The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.
-
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.
-
TARP became so politicized that having money from it was almost like a scarlet letter. There were debates over compensation, worry that the rules were going to get changed. All the banks were desperately rushing to get that money back as soon as possible - in part, so they could pay themselves bonuses without any government restrictions.
-
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
