Tom Green (Michael Thomas Green) Quotes
Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.
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Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
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The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
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I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
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The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
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Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.
