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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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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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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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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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 joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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Spiritual beings do not sweat life's small stuff. They also know that most of what drives us crazy in life is small stuff. The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world's lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness.
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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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.
