Mike Skinner (Michael Geoffrey Skinner) Quotes
An addiction to a fix of praise- Rely on me to say it’s okay- There’s only room for one in the sun- There was only one of me and you once
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
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Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.
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I don't feel as if I have to force anything. I just have to play my game.
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We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It's insane.
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My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
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A woman is subject matter enough.
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Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
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What really makes your business is your workers - their commitment, their knowledge, how you train them, how you treat them. They have to make the entity a winning entity.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
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I was very much aware that we still had to get safely back down the mountain again and that was quite an important factor. I really felt the most excitement when we finally got to the bottom of the mountain again and it was all behind us.
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My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
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An addiction to a fix of praise- Rely on me to say it’s okay- There’s only room for one in the sun- There was only one of me and you once
