Mike Royko Quotes
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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I will write another book if I feel like it.
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When you're just focused on nutrition and hunger, that's a harder, harder lift in isolation.
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I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not passing as anything that I'm not. I'm just being myself.
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Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
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I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.
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I think that even at my most anxious, if I have a job to do or a role to fill, I know on some level I can step up and complete it. I mean, I'm probably not going to go bungee jumping anytime soon... but pushing myself to weather some discomfort now and then feels healthy.
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I would say to the leaders of the Soviet Union, and to their people, that if either of our countries is to be fully secure, we need a much better weapon than the H-bomb - a weapon better than ballistic missiles or nuclear submarines - and that better weapon is peaceful cooperation.
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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
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If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.
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Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.
