Michael Emerson Quotes
Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.
Quotes to Explore
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed, and I became a massage therapist. With this job, all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent, and completely in control of my life.
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I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
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The question of what we can do to give purpose or meaning to our lives has been debated for thousands of years by philosophers and common men. Yet today we seem, if anything, further from the answer than before. Despite our great material wealth and high standard of living, people are groping for something that money cannot buy.
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Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.
