Mike Shinoda Quotes
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
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When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
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Endurance is mind over matter.
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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'Yes,' he said, 'intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.'
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.
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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
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The casual listener won't be around forever.
