Michael McKean Quotes
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
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I love to go to Ireland just to relax.
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People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
