Mike Nichols Quotes
Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!
Quotes to Explore
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.
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I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
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I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.
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A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.
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Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.
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As a director, you want to work with great writers.
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I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.
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Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
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I've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!
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It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.
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The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!
