Mickey Kaus Quotes
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
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That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have to be to understand himself.
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When push comes to shove, we all should know most Americans want the same things, but just disagree on how to get there, which is why it should be okay to not panic if the other party wins.
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.
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Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.
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I think it's dangerous to look at every Muslim woman the same and to assume that every experience within the religion is the same, meaning that there are going to be strong and assertive women that are Muslim. There's going to be a more passive woman who just so happens to be a Muslim. There may be a funny, big-personality woman and she's Muslim.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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I don't want them to take my money, either. That's just like taking it and burning it.
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I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
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I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.
