Michael Scott Quotes
Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
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Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20
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The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.
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I'm such a bikini girl. Generally, I like to be as half-naked as I possibly can.
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Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field.
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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
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I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.
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One of the more difficult things is the time. Either you are going 100 miles an hour, or you are sleeping. There is nothing in between.
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I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
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Threats mean nothing to me.
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I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.
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I love women more than anything.
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Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.
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Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
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Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
