Mickey Kaus Quotes
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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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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Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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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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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
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The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.
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Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.
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The fact is that I used the word, and no context can excuse it. I failed to exemplify my own standards and those of my party. I apologise for any offence this may have caused, particularly to the Lumumba family.
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Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
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I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
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Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.
