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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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 guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance. But each grizzly I've caught sight of was as fearsome and sublime as the last. You never get used to their raw power and massive bodies, or the mysterious intelligence in their dark, close-set eyes.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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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.
