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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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.
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A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.
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I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.