Michael Jeter Quotes
It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality!
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
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I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
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In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
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I think Tunisia has a specific place in the Arab world and in Africa because it is a tiny Muslim country, but it's very open minded. It's the first country to start the Arab Spring, for example.
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Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.
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My parents were very indiscrete.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.
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It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
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It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality!
