Michael Emerson Quotes
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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Life is God's art.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Michael Brown - when he lost his life, there was more focus on what he had done sometimes than what was done to him.
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I'm very spiritual and I'm Jewish by faith. I'm not a practising Jew, I'm more of a recreational Jew. I celebrate the holidays and I try to inform my kids about their heritage because I think we all at some point have to defend our heritage and if they get picked on I want them to know why.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
Biz Stone -
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
