Lorne Michaels Quotes
Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.
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Sometimes you think you didn't win, and you focus so much on that instead of really looking at it from the perspective of it not being your time yet.
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Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.
