Michael Sims Quotes
If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.
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I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.
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I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.
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There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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I've always wanted to play Peter Parker, obviously.
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If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.
