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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Bringing back something akin to Glass-Steagall would clearly help limit risk in the system. And that's a very good and worthy goal. Letting banks sell securities and insurance products and services allowed them to grow too big too fast and fueled a culture that put profit and pay over prudence.
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People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
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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.
