Mike Mills Quotes
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens.
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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.
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I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
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I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.
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My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.
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I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
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I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.
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I have a season pass to several of the VH1 shows, like 'Rock of Love' and Flavor Flav's show. It's kind of embarrassing because it's completely ignorant television - it's all totally fake and garbage - but I still love it.
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I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.
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Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
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The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.
