Michael Rose Quotes
The long-range forecast is for more warm weather. There's no doubt about it. When it's cold in New York, the prices go higher, and when it's warmer, prices go lower.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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I don't want to get fat.
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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The 'interface' of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism – a formula for blitz and metamorphosis. (p. 161)
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The time has passed for argument. Nothing more need be said. For a long time it has been clear that colored persons must be senators.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.
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The long-range forecast is for more warm weather. There's no doubt about it. When it's cold in New York, the prices go higher, and when it's warmer, prices go lower.
