Michael Weston Quotes

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

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• I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • High
  • Technology

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Weird
  • Improv

• I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
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  • Up
  • Funny

• The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • Black
  • Everybody

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
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  • Up
  • Live

• I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Children
  • Thought

• It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.

  

  Ma Jun
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  • True
  • Development

• We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

  

  Sam Yagan
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  • Behavior
  • Dating

• Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Risk
  • West

• My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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  • Different
  • Live

• There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

  Garry Kasparov
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• Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

  

  Lu Xun
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  • Country
  • Hope

• I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's 'symbolism'. Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that's what sampling does in songs; it's making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Music
  • History

• At times, I can be vocal about what I think people want to hear as opposed to being vocal about what I really feel.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People

• One of the lessons learned from 22 July is that we have to take seriously all those people who take part in debates on the Internet, expressing extreme views, and then meet them, discuss with them, bring them into the open. We have not used bans or used the laws to try to forbid parties or political tendencies which we don't like.

  

  Jens Stoltenberg
  • People
  • Political

• I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect of the filmgoers. So I understand people not wanting to go to the theater.

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • People
  • Movie
  • Disrespect

• My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • Bad
  • Dad

• I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither Dad nor Mom interfere in my work.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Father

• Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

  

  Michael Weston
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