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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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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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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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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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 don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
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With proper governance, life will improve for all.
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When John Travolta had the opportunity to do The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, he brought me and a couple other people from the movie to just be the students and have some parts, because he wanted to help us out. I thought that was really sweet.
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I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks.
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What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.
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Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
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I'm a big fan of improvisation but I can't say that I'm great at it.
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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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Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
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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.
