Tom Green (Michael Thomas Green) Quotes
It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
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I do not believe in hypocrisy.
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Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.
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Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.
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It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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When all capital, all production, all exchange have been brought together in the hands of the nation, private property will disappear of its own accord, money will become superfluous, and production will so expand and man so change that society will be able to slough off whatever of its old economic habits may remain.
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I don't care how far you get in the playoffs. Nobody remembers you until you win the Super Bowl.
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It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.
