Mike Schmidt Quotes
Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
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'It must be a real one-horse town.'Auger shook her head as she lit a cigarette. 'It has wild ambitions of becoming a one-horse town.'
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Lo que sé lo soporto con lo que no sé.
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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
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I will do simple cleanses and have a day where I'm quiet and don't talk. I need to have this experience, especially after work has been really intense.
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I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
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Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.
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I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.
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I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness.
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I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
'Moldova: Yes or No?' That's a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say 'Yes, you're in Moldova.' I'm so excited. People need that. That's the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are... in Moldova. Or not.
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One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
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If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.
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It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action - not a thought. And the penalty paid by him who speculates on truth, is that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.
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I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.
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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.
