Mike Quade Quotes
I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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In the street the rain was little more than a fine mist which softened the outlines of the houses and even lent a touch of poetry to a neighbourhood unlikely to evoke tender emotions. He raised his eyes to a roofline bristling with television aerials, lowered them again to windows still blank before the evening lights were lit.
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In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.
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I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.
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The university, vanguard of our struggling people, cannot become a backward element, but it would become so if the university did not incorporate itself into the great plans of the Revolution.
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Can a little speck in the vast universe truly address the Infinite? The answer is that Prayer is precisely what converts that little speck into an entity of inestimable and cosmic significance.
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I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.
