Michael Urie Quotes
Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.
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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious.
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Coming in, I wanted to be a great player, and right now at the beginning of my career, I'm showing some slight sunshine that I can be the player I want.
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New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.
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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.
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A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.
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Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
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The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
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Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.
