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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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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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
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I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.
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Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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The only way to gain the kinds of often-generational wealth that the 1% has been able to gain is through controlling the populations it relied on to make its wealth.
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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.
