Mike Shinoda Quotes
When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.
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I have good stamina and good endurance.
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Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.
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I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
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They say that bears Have love affairs And even camels, We're merely mammals Let's misbehave.
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A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.
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(on The Hamburg Cell): 'It shows them as weak, alienated individuals being recruited by the classic methods of any campus cult. Young men without a strong sense of self are a Microsoft for mind viruses, and these were no exception.' weblog post, 3 September 2004
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
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There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.
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When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.
