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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My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
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Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
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In defense of games, I want to point out that the writing in plays, including everything by August Strindberg and The Lion King, is 100% pure crap. So we're doing better than they are even though they have the benefit of mostly not being about space marines.
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Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.
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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?
