Michael Potts Quotes

I've gotten to jump into a lot of different things. And either being bold enough or dumb enough or naive enough to believe I could play them all, it's an exercise of self-delusion.

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• Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
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• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
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  • Buddha

• I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
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• Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

  

  N. T. Wright
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• What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.

  

  Carla Hall
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  • Love

• Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• It is better to watch things then to do them.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Trying

• I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin….

  

  Malcolm X
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• Unreason is now ascendant in the United States-in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.

  

  Sam Harris
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  • Ignorance

• The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time they will be found to improve, and not to be much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

  

  Fisher Ames
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• Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
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• Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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• From age six to 12, I lived in seven different countries, moving from one refugee camp to another, hoping we would be wanted.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
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• I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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  • Death

• Any time I can spend time with my brothers and sisters who fight for this country and fight for freedom, it's a positive thing.

  

  James McCloughan
  • Time
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  • Freedom

• I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

  

  Martin Fleischmann
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• What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.

  

  John Entwistle The Who
  • People
  • Giving

• I've gotten to jump into a lot of different things. And either being bold enough or dumb enough or naive enough to believe I could play them all, it's an exercise of self-delusion.

  

  Michael Potts
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