Lorne Michaels Quotes
When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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We have telemedicine where, if you come into our office, you can go downstairs, and there's a machine there and a nurse there, and you talk to a doctor who works from a clinic down the street. It's just going to make a great health care system in the long run. We just have a lot of pains go through.
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Glory and gore go hand in hand.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
