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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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

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• The media is controlled.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• I used practically all the money I had available.

  

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

  

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• Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.

  

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• My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

  

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• The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man; his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.

  

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• Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.

  

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• 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