Tom Green (Michael Thomas Green) Quotes
It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
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There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.
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We're a social species, and we want to get along with the people we like and who are like us. That's just good adaptive behaviour. We're more likely to accept something if we hear it from a friend, whereas we're sceptical of people who are not like us - which is what leads to racism, nationalism, sexism and all forms of bigotry.
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The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.
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It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.
