Mike Lookinland Quotes
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.
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Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I can scare myself like a pro.
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Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'
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If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.
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In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
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It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
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When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.
