Michael Gudinski (Michael Solomon Gudinsk) Quotes
I’m lucky to have the life I have. You don’t know how long you’re going to be around but it’s good to know that my son and daughter (Matt and Kate Alexa) will continue the Gudinski name at Mushroom Group. But I’m certainly not going to put my feet up. I’m going to keep an eye on the legacy.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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I just want to do my job.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.
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I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.
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The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.
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..those who view the history of North America as a narrative of genocide and slavery are, it seems to me, hopelessly stuck on this reactionary position. They can think of the Western expansion of the United States only in terms of plague blankets, bootleg booze and dead buffalo, never in terms of the medicine chest, the wheel and the railway.
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I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.
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But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
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I’m lucky to have the life I have. You don’t know how long you’re going to be around but it’s good to know that my son and daughter (Matt and Kate Alexa) will continue the Gudinski name at Mushroom Group. But I’m certainly not going to put my feet up. I’m going to keep an eye on the legacy.
