Mike McCready Quotes
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.
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The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
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I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.
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But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.
