Mika (Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.) Quotes
I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
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Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
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I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
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You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.
