Walter Mikac Quotes
Each and every one of us will be confronted by a major challenge in our lives ... We can choose to shut down, retreat into our safety zone and not participate in life, or we can decide to learn from the experience and make a difference to the lives of those around us.
Quotes to Explore
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
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Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
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What did we build it for? Was it all a dream? . . .Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam . . .And after a while they will fall to dust and rain;Or else we will tear them down with impatient hands;And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.
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The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.
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When you're seven feet tall on set, people give you respect.
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Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
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Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.
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Each and every one of us will be confronted by a major challenge in our lives ... We can choose to shut down, retreat into our safety zone and not participate in life, or we can decide to learn from the experience and make a difference to the lives of those around us.
