Mike Cernovich Quotes
Democracy doesn't mean I always get my way. It doesn't mean we always get what we want.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.
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I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.
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Democracy doesn't mean I always get my way. It doesn't mean we always get what we want.
