Michael Symon Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
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All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.
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Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois shock the middle classes; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it. It is preposterous to equate the denial of taxpayer subsidy with measures 'aimed at the suppression of dangerous ideas.'
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From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.
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Google helps us sort the Internet by providing a sense of hierarchy to information. Facebook uses its algorithms and its intricate understanding of our social circles to filter the news we encounter. Amazon bestrides book publishing with its overwhelming hold on that market.
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I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'
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Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.
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One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.
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Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.
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I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.
