Mike Watt Quotes
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
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I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
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America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.
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Christians get trees. Jews get bushes. To stay in good standing with the Tribe, you've got to refer to a Christmas tree as a Hanukkah bush.
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I don't mean to sound cocky, but I just wear what I like and don't try to focus too much on trends.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.
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You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
