Mike Royko Quotes
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
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The world needs some help.
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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When I walk into the room, I own it!
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues."
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Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.
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It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
