Frank Morrison Spillane (Mickey Spillane) Quotes
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
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People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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Babyface is definitely a big inspiration.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
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Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
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I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.
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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.
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Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.
