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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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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I'm fascinated with aggressive music on a street level. We draw from all corners of rock 'n' roll history , hip hop, dance, punk, whatever, and spit it out as the Prodigy sound. The live element allows us to take it one step further, to really connect with the crowd and bring out a darker side to the band. It will always remain important to me to create something raw and unpolished.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
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A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.
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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.
