Lorne Michaels Quotes
If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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I got no hate in me.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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For me, family has always come first.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
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When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical.
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I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.
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If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.
