Michael Rooker Quotes
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
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I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
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The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.
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For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
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The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.
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I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.
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Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
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It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
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I'm going to always be a Sixer til I die.
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You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist.
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It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.
