Michael Oher Quotes
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.
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There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
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We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.
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Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
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I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.
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Passion is the fuel that will keep us joyfully fulfilling our purpose.
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The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?
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Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.
