Michael Heisley Quotes
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.
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I've never had a very great public life.
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I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'
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I love doing deals and operating companies.
