Michael Learned Quotes
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.
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I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.
