Mike Rowe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
-
Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
-
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.
-
My journey has been that of a character actor.
-
I often reread books I have written.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
-
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.
-
The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.'
-
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
-
I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.
-
Global traffic has become very networked, very connected.
-
If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!
-
I was so young, and I didn't know a lot about life yet, and part of me sometimes wishes that I could experience that now, knowing what I know and with a little more wisdom.
-
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
-
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
-
It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.
-
Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.
