Michael Scott Quotes
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, - and therefore he'll be a success.
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
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The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and one that's easy to forget - it's the dog that doesn't bark.
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Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
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Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning.
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In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.
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Throw out the rule book. If you like wearing navy and black together, wear it; if you like mixing up gold and silver jewellery, mix it. If you like it, wear it - don't care about what anyone else thinks.
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I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.
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I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.
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It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
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Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.
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When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
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When someone hears that I've written a book about 1897, I'm usually met with blank stares. And the first thing they say is, 'Was there even an L.A. back then?' A lot of people don't even think there was a city before the movies appeared. That concept of Los Angeles is so strong in the popular imagination that celebrity overrides everything.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.
