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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My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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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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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
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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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What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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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.
