Michael Ironside Quotes
My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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I don’t know where to begin my speech. I don’t know what people would be expecting me to say, but first of all thank you to God for whom we are equal and thank you to every person who has prayed for my fast recovery and new life.
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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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It felt like a faraway place that was still home,
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If anything's progressive, then we make progress.
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The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.
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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
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My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
