Michael Ryan Quotes
The problem in society we have at the moment is that everyone is afraid of making a mistake. Everyone is afraid of the consequence of error.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
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Animals, these beings trappedAs I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,Aging, but without knowledge of their age,Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death- Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!The world goes by my cage and never sees me.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
Anita Brookner -
I'm a wild lady. Not.
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I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.
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When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.
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I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.
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I find teenage girls endlessly funny.
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I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
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My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
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The problem in society we have at the moment is that everyone is afraid of making a mistake. Everyone is afraid of the consequence of error.
