Al Michaels Quotes
You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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I'm not a violent person.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.
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I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
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I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
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I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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Whatever happened to a good pie-in-the-face joke?
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
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If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
