Mike McCready Quotes
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.
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To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.
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Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
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I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.
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I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.
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I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.
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I took an oath when I became secretary of homeland security to defend and support the Constitution.
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For teenage kids, they feel a pressure to sweep things under the rug because they feel like they're not important enough to have problems.
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I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.
