Michael Gambon Quotes
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I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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Music is about the performance.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.
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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
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Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
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If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Whatever the other failures of the U.S. government were, it had managed to print an excess of dollars which, combined with the collapse of trade and communication, had severely eroded the currency's value.
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I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.
