Michael Finley Quotes
I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.
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Sequels are desperate.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.
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I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
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After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life.
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All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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I rarely read children's books.
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I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.
