Michael Learned Quotes
All of us from The Waltons still love each other. I think were closer than some real families.
Quotes to Explore
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
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It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
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Breathe through your movements.
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I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
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I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.
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In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It's just not true: We've had multiple wars; we're not educating our kids. We had government shut downs, badly-spent money, failures in the health system, failures and an extreme amount of regulation - that's why we're going slow.
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Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.
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I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!
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You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.
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I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.
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All of us from The Waltons still love each other. I think were closer than some real families.
