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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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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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 one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.
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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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The only way to ensure that inflation expectations remain safely anchored near the FOMC's target is to keep inflation close to that target on a consistent basis.
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It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.
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I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.'
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When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.
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Somebody once observed - and the observation did him credit, whoever he was -that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping.
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People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.
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It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.
