Mikko Hypponen Quotes
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
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I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'
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I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors.
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The business of America shouldn't be subsidizing business.
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
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I want to reach a wide variety of people.
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I happen to enjoy grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches.
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I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.
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There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
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In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.
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The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.
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If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, 'Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.'
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Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.
