Mike White Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
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You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football – for me, at least.
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I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.
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Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.
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Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
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I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?
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A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.