Mike Mills Quotes

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

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• The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Day
  • Settle

• Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Faith
  • Stop

• I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Sweet

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
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• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Week

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Best
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • High
  • Think

• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • College
  • Baseball

• Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • School
  • Never
  • Acting

• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
  • Impressed
  • Michel Foucault

• I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Up
  • Together
  • Picture

• Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Time

• I used practically all the money I had available.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Money

• If you remember the '90s, you weren't there.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Remember
  • 1990s

• We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Control
  • Hand

• One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Thinking
  • Memories
  • Lakes

• The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Funny
  • Racing
  • Tire

• I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Ignorance
  • Distance

• We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Should
  • Ethics
  • Felt