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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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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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 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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Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.
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I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.
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I'm really more of an executive.
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Light fills the air, wind is aglow, drink of it, breathe of it, make leafing. Rainfall sows itself, it grows down through soil to the secret places where stones abide; it brings the strength of them up rootward. Lie still, molder away, then be again grass.
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There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
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Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.
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That is what mature faith requires — not pride over how much one sees and understands, but humility, the feeling that one is still a child, certain of so little, still so dependent on God and others, with so much still to learn — including so much more to learn about humility.
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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.
