Mike Mills Quotes
My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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Companies that tend to survive are the rebels.
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I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.
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If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.
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I'm certainly a young actor. I'm certainly those two things. Actually, I'm not even young anymore; I'm 29. So, I'm an actor.
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Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.
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My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
