Michael F. Easley Quotes
Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.
Quotes to Explore
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Age for me is just a number.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.
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Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.
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I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.
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Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
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I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.
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It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.
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We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.
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Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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I listen to all types of music, but big rock records are the ones that, in the walk-up, make me wonder, 'What's this next set going to sound like?'
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A couple of years ago my friend and business partner Jeffrey Richards was doing the Gore Vidal play, The Best Man, starring James Earl Jones. I asked Jeffrey out to lunch and asked him what he thought of James playing Grandpa in You Can't Take It With You. Jeffrey thought it was a fabulous idea and so did James.
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Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.
