Mike Mills Quotes
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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I loved seeing my mom put her own twist on years-old family recipes and also create new dishes. This made me develop a passion for cooking at a young age and would eventually inspire me to prepare meals and host wonderful family dinners.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
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When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.
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There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.
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I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and the Spotifys of the world, which are like McDonald's, are going to make people less aware of how the thing gets made and of its value.
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The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.
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Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
