Mike Lee Quotes
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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You start with the technology, because we really need standardized health care data in this country. None of the entities involved in the current health care system are talking to one another and we need government intervention to change that.
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The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.
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Limited government must come politically, not judicially.
