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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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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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
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I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
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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.
