Michael Urie Quotes
I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
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When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.
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People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.
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It is my express wish that in awarding the Nobel Prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
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It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.
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I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.
