Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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I'm a very independent woman.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.
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The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
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Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
