Michael Gross Quotes
When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wife used to call me Captain Von Trapp from 'The Sound of Music.' I tended to be a little more authoritarian. I had been a very disciplined child myself, so I made the mistake of thinking one size fits all.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
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My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
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People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
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North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
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I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
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When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wife used to call me Captain Von Trapp from 'The Sound of Music.' I tended to be a little more authoritarian. I had been a very disciplined child myself, so I made the mistake of thinking one size fits all.
