Mike Rowe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
-
There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
-
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
-
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
-
People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
-
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
-
To me, my business is my life.
-
I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
-
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
-
As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
-
The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
-
Don't kill the golden goose.
-
It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
-
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
-
I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
-
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
-
That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.
-
When people get scared, they quit giving.
-
I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
-
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
-
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
-
When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.
-
Not all knowledge comes from college.
