Mike Rounds Quotes
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
Quotes to Explore
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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Boys never liked me at school. They made fun of me 'cos I had dark skin.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.
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I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood.
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If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.
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There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
