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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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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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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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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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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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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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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I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'
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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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In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like 'charming' and 'clever' and 'pretty' are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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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.
