Michael East Quotes
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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There's nothing wrong with being yourself.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
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I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
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I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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Jack: Hey, wait a minute. What kind of make up is this?
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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
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The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own.
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Yet in my lineaments they traceSome features of my father's face.
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In a series, you have the luxury of time to establish the character and build a rhythm. In a TV movie, you've got to come up with the rhythm now. Right now.
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We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
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Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is formed for a particular purpose. The clear and irrevocable world of Scripture declares what daily experience teaches from the beginning of the world: woman is destined to be wife and mother.
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I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.
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It turns out chimps have the same genetic sequence as that family with the speech deficit.
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So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!
