Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.
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A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
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I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
