Mickey Kaus Quotes
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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A house is kind of scary.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
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I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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Now out upon you, Christmas !Is this the merry time When the red hearth blazed, the harper sung,And the bells rung their glorious chime ? . . .
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Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn't always flashy, but it does get results.
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I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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Historically, there has been a gap between single-purpose racecars and street-legal models - commonly called supercars - that emulate the real racers on the road.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.
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Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.
