Michael Nesmith Quotes
Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It’s an extremely important part of what I am.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
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At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.
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Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'
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When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.
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I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers making nice big turns.
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Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It’s an extremely important part of what I am.
