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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A penny for the Old Guy
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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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In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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The continuum had somehow managed to correct the incongruity, pairing off lovers like the last act of a Shakespearean comedy, though just how it had managed it wasn’t clear. What was clear was that it had wanted us out of the way while it was doing whatever it was doing. So it had done the time-travel equivalent of locking us in our rooms.
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When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.
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There's a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It's not a long-term measure.
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I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.
