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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My education was very tough.
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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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Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.
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Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.
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I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.
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My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.
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The ‘80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other ‘80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.
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You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
