Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
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If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.
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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
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Hope is a moral choice.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen.
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Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.
