Michael Emerson Quotes

So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.

Michael Emerson

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• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

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• I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.

  

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• I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

  

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• It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.

  

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• Love is a state of being.

  

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• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

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• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

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• I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

  

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• Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

  

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• I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.

  

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• You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

  

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• When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.

  

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• I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

  

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• What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.

  

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• I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.

  

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• The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster homosexuality whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

  

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• All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

  

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• When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

  

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• So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Perspective
  • Tradition
  • Europe