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.
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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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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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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 young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.
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Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin - and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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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.
