Mike Lookinland Quotes

And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.

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• It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Light
  • Day

• Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Rest

• The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Baseball

• They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • Future
  • Hunting
  • Engage

• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Sky

• Death is better than slavery.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Death
  • Better
  • Slavery

• Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Power
  • Happy

• Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

  

  Sam Childers
  • America
  • Bad
  • Want

• Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wife

• As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Audience
  • Stage

• I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Long
  • Food

• My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • You
  • Washington

• I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • School
  • Why
  • Learn

• I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Simple

• Going to the conventions, seeing the incredible amount of love that people put into their clothing, costumes, gadgetry, and art of all kinds, is a huge treat for me.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • People
  • Art
  • Incredible

• You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • World
  • Done
  • You

• If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Life
  • Night

• The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Life
  • Self
  • Last

• I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

  

  Ashin Wirathu
  • Respect
  • Dalai Lama
  • Broker

• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  

  Quintilian
  • Impression
  • Fault
  • Excellent

• An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Work
  • American
  • Success

• And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.

  

  Mike Lookinland
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  • Impression
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