Mike McCready Quotes
Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.
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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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That doesn't mean that we're not going to do everything we can to make things that have even a hint of efficacy more readily available.
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Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through deals that I brought to them or business counsel that I have provided.
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A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
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Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
