Michael Learned Quotes
I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
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An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
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My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
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We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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This one is for the boys in the polos Entrepreneur niggas & the moguls
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We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.
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I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm into.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.
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I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because of the relationship I have with my culture and what my music means to him.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.
