Mike Quigley Quotes
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
Quotes to Explore
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.
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These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.
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You have to do what's best for the brand.
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Why is it that the people who seem to have the most to say aren’t doing anything at all?
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New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.
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Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
