Michael Finley Quotes
I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
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The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
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If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.
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How I love David Bowie.
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As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center.
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I'm totally growing up.
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I'm probably a believer in abandoning too-big-to-fail firms or breaking them up in some way so that the system can try to take care of itself. I imagine you're not going to get there, and therefore, I suspect regulation is what's going to be required.
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There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
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There is the story in every man's heart of human progress. I believe every one of us knows that his major job on Earth is to make some contributions, no matter how small, to this inexorable movement of human progress.
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I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.
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In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.
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I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.
