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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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
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You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.
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What people don't know is that I'm a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I've been for 20 years, and I've been boxing since I've been 15 years old - those are things that come natural to me.
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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.
