Michael McKean Quotes
There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.
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To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.
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I'm aware, as I get older, there are less and less stories that really pertain to me and who I am and where I'm going.
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Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
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A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.
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After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.
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It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.
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There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.
