Michael Emerson Quotes
There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks. So, you know, historically black and white, they worship together until about the end of slavery, and people started moving out into separate churches. But it was because of discrimination and racism and such that blacks began to establish their own denominations and their own churches.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
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Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
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But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?
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My boat is on the shore,And my bark is on the sea;But, before I go, Tom Moore.Here's a double health to thee!
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There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks. So, you know, historically black and white, they worship together until about the end of slavery, and people started moving out into separate churches. But it was because of discrimination and racism and such that blacks began to establish their own denominations and their own churches.
