Michael Owen Quotes
I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
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I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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I started skating when I was six years old.
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
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Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.
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All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma.
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Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
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For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them
