Mike Coffman Quotes
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.
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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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I'm just waiting for the day when my songs aren't flying. Because I kind of believe in Murphy's law - if something can go wrong, it eventually will.
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I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
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Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.
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Ian Smith.
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It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
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Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
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You have a losing team, you change the coach.
