Madchen Amick Quotes
It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' Those are all put-downs. I'm all about pick-ups. You have to pick people up and pay it forward.
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I grew up in a household where there were really, really strong matriarchal characters. I think that's true of many Asian households. People tend to think of Asia as a misogynistic society or a society where men rule. At least in my experience, the women rule the household; the women rule the social scene. The men often become very useless.
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The first time my father woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he was going to die, I think I was eight. He brought out all his papers and explained to me what to do with his body and who to call and how to take care of things. You either learn how to survive, or you fall to pieces. I'm pretty good at surviving.
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Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.
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I'm going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know exactly what it would be for, specifically, but I want it to be a change I make in the world with my music.
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It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
