Michael Tubbs Quotes
For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
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This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.
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As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.
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I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.
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We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.
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I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.
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There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.
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I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.
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I've never been prudish.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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Public radio has always been so powerless.
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For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.
