Mike Conaway Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.
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I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.
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I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.
