Michael Moriarty Quotes
Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew something, I'd say 'read it,' which sounds a bit like a frog croak.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
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The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
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Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.
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Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.
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Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; Lack of it is the reason one loses.
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In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.
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I'm just such a good kisser.
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Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.
