Michael Tubbs Quotes
I thought I'd be a low-key producer or something, politics and film at the same time. But also, I'm not a big movie person - my girlfriend gets mad at me because I go to sleep whenever we go to the movies.
Quotes to Explore
-
On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
-
I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
-
I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
-
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
-
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
-
Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
-
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
-
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
-
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
-
A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
-
I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
-
What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
-
I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.
-
I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
-
Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.
-
It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
-
I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.
-
The best thing is being part of history and achieving something you've dreamed of.
-
French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.
-
So many of the great songs are written in response to some cataclysmic event. You can't make that happen; it just happens. So you wait for life to happen, and it informs your art. And when life catches you by surprise, that can lead to the best art.
-
I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
-
I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.
-
You have got to field well. If you don't bat well, you can still make a difference by fielding well. There are times I have played games just because of my fielding.
-
I thought I'd be a low-key producer or something, politics and film at the same time. But also, I'm not a big movie person - my girlfriend gets mad at me because I go to sleep whenever we go to the movies.
