Mike Quade Quotes
It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
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I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.
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I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
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I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.
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Aion is a child at play, gambling; a child’s is the kingship. Telesphorus traverses the dark places of the world, like a star flashing from the deep, leading the way to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams.
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It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?
