Mike Watt Quotes

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

Mike Watt

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• Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Father
  • Me
  • Mean

• There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Almost
  • Imitation
  • Absurdity

• The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Justice

• Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mean

• The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

  

  John Travolta
  • Mean
  • Promise
  • Things Change

• You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Life
  • School
  • College

• To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Live
  • Mean
  • Ugly

• By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Mean

• The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.

  

  R. Carlos Nakai
  • Mean
  • Communication
  • Expression

• If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Thinking
  • May

• I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Mean

• That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them yourself. That way you're in control of the situation.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Way
  • Control
  • Mean

• The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Music
  • Humanity
  • Profound

• The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Help

• I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Women
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • Mean
  • Growth
  • Waste

• To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Environment
  • Product

• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Rules
  • Differently
  • Misfits

• Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Beauty

• We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.

  

  Jon Crosby
  • Feeling
  • Audiences
  • Underground

• Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

  

  Mike Watt
  • Mean
  • Expression
  • Imitation