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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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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For me, I think the best part of all and the most fun was just being a part of such an amazing movie and such an amazing show because 'Into The Woods' is just so incredible.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!
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Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others.
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The GP, who she called immediately, fingers shaking as she dialled, exclaimed with joy. She didn't thinkdoctors were supposed to do that - register an emotional reaction to an outcome.
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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.
