Michael Ontkean Quotes
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
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In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.
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I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.
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When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.
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It is more important to influence people than to impress them.
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I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
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Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.
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In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.
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Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.
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A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have become vestiges of what they were and individuals with large amounts of money can leapfrog over that process, which can have a positive mediating effect. And so I think there are things to worry about.
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We never had a catalogue; we never said we were going to duplicate these pots this year and next year and the year after that and so forth. We did make many pots which were repeated, but we allowed them to change and to grow as we changed and grew, and I think that was the big difference. And that's all right; we were working for ourselves. We didn't have anybody we had to pay.
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I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time.
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I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.
