Mike Gordon Quotes
I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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History will treat me right.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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That Shakespeare wanted Art.
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I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.
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When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.
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Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
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The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
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If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.
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I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
