Mike Skinner (Michael Geoffrey Skinner) Quotes
I came to this world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love. Everything else is just borrowed
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
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I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
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Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.
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I think the two are kind of synonymous for me; songwriting is like my form of diary making. It's how I process the world. Without doing that, I feel kind of lost. The characters that I play often come out in the songs and the challenges that they face, albeit in an abstract way.
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I came to this world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love. Everything else is just borrowed
