Michael Ryan Pritchard (Mike Dirnt) Quotes
When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I got a granite chin.
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those 'special songs' of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd 'rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.'
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'When you think about it from a native plant perspective,' Oyster says.'Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist.'
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The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.
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There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
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You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
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I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.
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As an actor, you always find your way. You have whatever preparation techniques you use, and you just go with the scene when you're on set. You can only plan so much when you're working, because things have to come naturally in the scene.
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You have to be the best that you can be
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
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When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
