Mike Rowe Quotes
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I often reread books I have written.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.
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The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.
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I'm not a member of any faith community, and I think faith is a deeply personal issue that individuals should deal with in their private lives.
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I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.'
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It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.
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After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
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I think the Hammer films really made death quite sexy.
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Marketing is about innovation.
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While working in a group is great, on-set especially, it means you just don't get to see the characters one-on-one.
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I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.
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Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.
