Michael Lee-Chin Quotes
From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.
Quotes to Explore
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
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I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
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Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.
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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just sink in with me. But it proves to me that music is powerful.
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Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
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I was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 20 miles from Kalamazoo. I lived around there for about seven years. That community is one that I really care about.
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My mom always told me drinking water was the most important skin care tip. I also think the less you do to your skin the better. I'm a fan of simple and natural products.
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The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.
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From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.
