Michael Mina Quotes
I love San Francisco, it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time. They walk in, and this is the start of their good time.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
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Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. She didn't even finish her term.
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Respect, recognition, and reward flows out of performance.
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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
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Children tell the truth.
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I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.
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The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
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I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.
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I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.
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What is most unconscionable is that there is not a shred of evidence to justify the certain loss of life. Do the generalized threats and half-truths of this administration give any one of us in Congress the confidence to tell a mother or father or family that the loss of their child or loved one was in the name of a just cause?
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.
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I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.
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I love San Francisco, it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time. They walk in, and this is the start of their good time.
