Michael Graves Quotes
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
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'They say the church spire interferes with their bloody television reception.'
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Joe and I always say that our guide through action is always story and character. We're always driving right at the character beats, or else the action beat doesn't work.
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My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.
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We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
