Michael Madsen Quotes
I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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I would love to study cultures and people.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.
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I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
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'Life' in this 'society' being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of 'society' being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.
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I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.
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I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.
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The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.
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Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.
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Please you can never compare to me, all these b****es is scared of me. I am who they couldn't even dare to be.
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You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
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I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit and finally we ended up in Georgia. I grew up playing softball and at the age of nine I decided I was going to be an Olympian.
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Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.
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I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.
