Mike Rogers Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
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The will of the people is the best law.
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Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.
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The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own.
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I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am.
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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
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I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.
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I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!
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The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.
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Politicians often say to me, 'Articles in the 'Observer' don't get me votes, but you get me money.'
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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I feel guilty: when I'm not golfing, I feel like I should be golfing. And when I'm golfing, I feel like I should be home working or spending time with the family. So it's a real conundrum.
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Who applies for that job? Who says 'I want to work in lost luggage'? You don't have a good day. That's like having a job emptying port-a-potties. You're just going to catch crap all day long.
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I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.
