Michael Pena Quotes
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.
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I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.
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My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.
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Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.
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I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.
