Michael Douglas Quotes

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Michael Douglas

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• The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
  • Internet

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Value
  • Pleasure

• As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • World
  • Different
  • Boy

• When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Food
  • Powerful
  • Fast

• On my first day in office as President Quavo, I'd move my whole family into the White House. Second, I'd pull all the troops back. Third, I'd raise the minimum wage to a good, nice amount so people get paid.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Different
  • Know
  • Feel

• Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • World
  • Universe

• I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • True
  • Know
  • Uniform

• I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Here
  • Perform
  • Autographs

• First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Service
  • Software
  • Data

• I work out sort of moderately.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Out

• That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Bad
  • Advice

• It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

  

  Kay Panabaker
  • Age
  • Teenager

• My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.

  

  Andy Dunn

• If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Want

• I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Song
  • Small
  • Lyrics

• It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • People
  • Cool
  • Fire

• People's connection to their clothes is very interesting. And rather than my own exposure, I would rather have the clothes be reachable and for people to be able to make those connections on their own.

  

  Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Connection

• I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • People
  • Chicago
  • Hollywood