Michael Nutter Quotes
All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them out of town.
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I believed I was invincible.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?
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I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.
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I've seen people who come to work say, 'No, I'm doing it this way, and that's that.' I'm the opposite - I like being out of my element; it's where I like to live.
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Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
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I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.
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I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
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I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.
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Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing 'Fallout 3,' a very fun game.
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When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.
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The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.
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I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.
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A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It's a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them out of town.
