Mika (Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.) Quotes
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
Quotes to Explore
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
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I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
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I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.
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It is possible for political forces to agree.
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Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
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Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
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The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.
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But coercion never produces harmony. How harmonious are people who are being forced to act against their will? Most likely, those who are coerced will resent those who benefit from the coercion. This sets group against group; it doesn't bring them together.
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I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.
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So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
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Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
