Mika (Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.) Quotes
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Jerry Rice had won two Super Bowls already by the time he got to his ninth year in the league. That's what it's all about: winning that ring.
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He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
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There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
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I love my family.
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When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.
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I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
