Michael Mina Quotes
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
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I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
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When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
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A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
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An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
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There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.
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I think we're going to demonstrate the power of one-to-one computer access that's going to transform education. … The economic future will belong to the technologically adept.
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Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
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You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.
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House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
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I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood.
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We want to see ourselves - but differently. We want to see these dream versions of ourselves. We want to be surprised; we want to be entertained. I think primarily, especially in this country, we ask that movies entertain us, which seems to be something they're less and less likely to do on a continual basis.
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What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?
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I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
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Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.
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Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.
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When you need help, you have to look for it: at times, it's necessary. People are specialists; that's what they're there for. You have to use them.
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Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
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We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.
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Just working through what other people had done gave me a feeling that this was all actually worth it. When you get stuck fighting small battles, it makes you small. Hopping from cable news show to cable news show to discuss controversy after controversy had made me small. I thought only about the fight, not why I was fighting.
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I am a cancer survivor…. Cancer is like enlightenment at gunpoint. One must face it and do something.
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When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
