Michael Wilbon Quotes
God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.'
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
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When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.
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Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.
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I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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You can become very reclusive in Hollywood. This gave us permission to be able to open up and be intimate with somebody that you might not normally be kind of brave enough or confident enough to do so with.
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God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.
