Michael Winter Quotes

To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in the house on the land next to me, and there might have been.

Michael Winter

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• As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.

  

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• Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
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• If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• I know I look super young.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
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• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
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• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
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• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  

  Ed Westwick
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• Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Relationship
  • Space

• If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Myself
  • Something
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• Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
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• Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

  

  Gary Coleman
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• Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• Here's ivy! - take them, as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true, And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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  • Eyes

• We've been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy. We don't want someone who will decide those issues for us - but decide them 'our' way. If we did, a White House bureaucrat with good horse sense might be just the ticket.

  

  Ann Coulter
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• All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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  • Talent
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• I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

  

  Curt Schilling
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• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
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• The only decent bone in her body was mine.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Body
  • Bones
  • Decent

• To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in the house on the land next to me, and there might have been.

  

  Michael Winter
  • Family
  • House
  • Nation