Mike Mills Quotes
L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
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I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
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I jump at any chance to go back into theater.
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The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.
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There is a price to pay for accomplishment.
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I started my entrepreneurial journey right out of college. At the age of 21, I incorporated my first business: a PR firm based in New York City.
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It is becoming harder for us to stay on top of the onslaught - e-mails, messages, appointments, alerts. Augmented intelligence offers the possibility of winnowing an increasing number of inputs and options in a way that humans can't manage without a helping hand.
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Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
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I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.
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I didn't want to be Doctor Who in a 'Doctor Who' that I didn't like.
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My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.
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I would not think twice about being part of any incarnation of the 'X-Men' films.
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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If you use a bad password, your Bitcoin will get stolen.
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L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.
