Michael Learned Quotes
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.
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Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.
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If you lived next door to me and didn't know what I did, you wouldn't know I was a celebrity. I don't have that lifestyle, nor do I want that lifestyle. I want to know that I can have a separate life with my wife and my kids and just be normal and go camping and fishing and outdoor stuff.
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Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.
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Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
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This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
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As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.
