Tom Green (Michael Thomas Green) Quotes
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I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
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I'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust.
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American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
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As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
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I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
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To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.
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I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.
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I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.
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I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.
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If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.
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I've already produced one hour specials for other comedians and I have a TV show called Stand Up Revolution where I showcase new talent and so I'd like to continue to do stuff like that and help out the next guy.
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There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.
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Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.
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I would have liked to be a comedian in the '20s, or maybe even a comedian on the Mayflower and have a statue somewhere.
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.
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Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.
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Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.
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Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.
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I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.
