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 always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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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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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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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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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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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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The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.
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It is not characteristic of American executives to read books, except books on 'management' and mysteries. ... Those who who do venture into this arena ... are looked upon by their colleagues with mingled awe and incredulity.
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I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
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I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.
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There ain't no sort of orse that I ain't bred, and no sort of dorg. Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me - lodging, wife, and children - reading, writing, and Arithmetic - snuff, tobacker, and sleep.
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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
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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.
