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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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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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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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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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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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/or, but both/and.
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I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black bodies in it on a museum wall... It strengthened me on a cellular level.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.
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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.
