Tom Green (Michael Thomas Green) Quotes
I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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I like Chanel mascara because it has the darkest black. For my eyebrows, I brush them through to keep them groomed and in place. And for my lips, I wear lip balm. I use Kiehl's Lip Balm #1. It's really helpful during fashion week. If I keep up with these three things, I feel like I look very fresh, young, and natural.
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I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.
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On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
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Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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We need to restart political processes to end wars.
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I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.
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I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something.
