Michael Pena Quotes
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
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I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.
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I say 'I love you' to my daughters every day.
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Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.
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My role model, my idol, was Francois Truffaut.
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Writing 'The Spirit' is really fun.
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I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.
