Michael Nesmith Quotes

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

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• It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Young
  • Strange
  • Senior

• I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Choices
  • Healthy

• The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • God
  • Write

• I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fight
  • Find
  • Watch

• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Why
  • You

• The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Truth
  • Dark
  • Presidential

• Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Sought

• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Need

• If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Up
  • May
  • Law

• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Future
  • Today
  • Growing

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Proud
  • Struggle
  • Anxiety

• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Career
  • Myself

• I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Want
  • Free
  • Enjoy

• What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • True

• It doesn't matter how many people adore you or how skinny, successful, smart, talented, funny, kind, or compassionate you are. None of it matters if you don't see your wonderful self.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People
  • Funny
  • Smart

• There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
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