Mike Royko Quotes
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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I wasn't a great background singer.
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Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it's a taxable event. It's like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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They threw me out the Ramada Inn, I said: 'It wasn't me, I got a twin! Oh my god it's you, not again!'
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To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
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For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
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In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
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I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.
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Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
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The only thing that keeps me in Miami is my husband.
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
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Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
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I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.
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A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.
