Mike Lookinland Quotes
From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say - it's all a fake.
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.
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I've learned one hell of a lot about men in my lifetime. They're all right to take to bed, but you sure better never let them get a stranglehold on you.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say - it's all a fake.
