Michael Madigan Quotes
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.
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In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
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And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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Death holds no allure for me, Elena.” The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. “Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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Cast aside your doubts. Make a total commitment to living the life you were meant to live.
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Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
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The public library is where I studied. It’s where my grandfather taught himself English.
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A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
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Richard Lewis has this incredible ability to look like he's just... you know it's an act that's been honed. What you have to do in standup is create spontaneity, somehow; even though you've done this act a million times, you gotta look like you're almost just thinking of it now, to make it entertainer.
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The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.
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The ability to suffer and the ability to love are one.
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Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.
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My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.
