Michael Nesmith Quotes
Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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I study to learn, to be an educated person.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.
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In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.
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Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
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I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!
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To make new friends you have be willing to put in the time.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal.... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal.... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.
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I first got interested in music as a toddler by my childhood babysitter, Rosetta Atkins. She taught me how to sing by imitating the voices on the gospel radio station she listened to - both men and women's voices.
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Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.
