M. J. Rose Quotes
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.
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Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help.
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We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
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The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.
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My agent and manager would sternly tell me exactly the number of projects that we've turned down at this point. But, I think it's really important to do the right thing next.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
