Mike Scully Quotes
I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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We need to tackle energy poverty.
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I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.
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People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.
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The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he Saddam Hussein is in power.
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Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.
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I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.
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Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
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Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.
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In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.
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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
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It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.
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The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
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I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.
