Mike Gordon Quotes
In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
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Sometimes, I think I have the best job in the world.
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Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.
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Let's learn to consume the least amount of energy possible.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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There is no single 'China model' to running a mega-economy. Instead, it is a blend. From the Europeans and the Japanese, the Chinese have borrowed the concept of protecting essential industries.
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The more you study quantum mechanics, the more crazy and incomprehensible it becomes. You truly do need a Ph.D. in very high level math and science to understand it at a high, high level.
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The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream.
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In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.
