Lorne Michaels Quotes
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.
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I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
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People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
