Mike Conaway Quotes
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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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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 am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
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I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.
