Michael W. Young Quotes
We can switch on the light at any time and make a sandwich. A great amount of people eat around the clock.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
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We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.
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New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.
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'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
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Great businessmen are creators.
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Tollywood has a special place in my heart because Telugu is my mother tongue, and when I sing in the language, my mom feels really happy.
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From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.
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A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.
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'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in Iraq, and there is no doubt about where it is going and what kind of groundwork is being laid.
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Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.
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We can switch on the light at any time and make a sandwich. A great amount of people eat around the clock.
