Michael Nesmith Quotes

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

Michael Nesmith The Monkees

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• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

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• I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

  

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• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

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• Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.

  

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• It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.

  

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• I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.

  

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• The words I overuse are all adverbs.

  

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• Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.

  

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• With the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlement or for guaranteeing the value of coins or for land titling. All of these functions can be replaced by a transparent public ledger that is safe from tampering and which can make value and ownership clear and open for everyone.

  

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• My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

  

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• I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.

  

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• These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

  

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• The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

  

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• I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

  

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• I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

  

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• For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.

  

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• There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

  

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• Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.

  

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• That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

  

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• I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course.

  

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• It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Words
  • Value
  • Shape