Michael Winter Quotes

If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.

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• There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

  

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• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

  

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• A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

  

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• I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

  

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• I know George Burns was a very happy man.

  

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• Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

  

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• We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

  

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• When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

  

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• I've seen a couple of singer switches happen right before my eyes, one being Roy Khan to Tommy Karevik in Kamelot, and the other was Anette Olzon to Floor Jansen in Nightwish. Those happened with me present, and I saw how well the fans took to these singers because they were presented in the proper way.

  

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• Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

  

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• You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

  

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• This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

  

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• To stay young, To save the world, Break the mirror.

  

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• I really like Rag & Bone jeans; I wear a lot of those.

  

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• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  

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• We have to be respectful to one another.

  

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• I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

  

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• If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.

  

  Michael Winter
  • Another
  • Warfare
  • Giddy