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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'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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My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.
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Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.
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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
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A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.
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How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.
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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.
