Mike Thompson Quotes
Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
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Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.
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Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
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I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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Occasionally when you’re in that zone, striving to operate at your highest levels, you get consumed. You forget to eat and shower. But that can be a good thing. No one makes money eating or showering.
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If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
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Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.
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Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.
