Mike Watt Quotes
There was a thing during those times in the '80s where it was like Sex Pistols then Nirvana and nothing in between.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
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I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
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I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.
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I had no money. I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.
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You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always say, "There's something I was meant to do." That knowingness is what the soul understands. You have fundamental agreements that you simply feel. You can't put your finger on them because they reveal themselves to you within the context of your life through coincidence, synchronicity, and obligations you can't get out of. Together, these things form the whole of your sacred contract.
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Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.
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We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
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There was a thing during those times in the '80s where it was like Sex Pistols then Nirvana and nothing in between.
