Mike Schmidt Quotes
Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I don't know anything about music.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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National defense through war always involves some degree of national defeat. This paradox has been with us from the very beginning of our republic. Militarization in defense of freedom reduces the freedom of the defenders. There is a fundamental inconsistency between war and freedom.
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At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.
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If you have a strong sense of who you are and what you're doing, then it's actually easier to work with other people, because you don't have to worry about them or yourself. You're just worrying about getting the best product, and all that other stuff is out of the way.
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I'm half Jewish half WASP.
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I'm kind of boring - I like to watch the 'Newshour' on Friday nights.
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You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.
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It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
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From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.
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I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.
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I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.
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Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.
