Mike deGruy Quotes
If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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I was a really big kid.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
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For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.
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I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
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For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'
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For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
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Love yourself. It's really that simple.
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I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be watered-down. Labels were always asking me to do this or do that, saying that I was lacking something. And every time, I did it the next year. Singles? Radio spins? I showed 'em.
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When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.
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How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go.
