Michael J. Willett Quotes
I guess I sort of got bullied in high school but no more than anyone else. I felt like everyone was weird or different.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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I have a pig valve.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one.
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In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.
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I guess I sort of got bullied in high school but no more than anyone else. I felt like everyone was weird or different.
