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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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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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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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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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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The best way to use these lists to replace anger with love in real life is to nurture each other by doing for your partner what your partner normally does for you.
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Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
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Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.
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It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.
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A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.
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In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
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We all have limitations. I don't have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don't have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.
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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.
