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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I enjoy reading tips about how to be more organized, and I rarely implement them.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.
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When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.
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When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.
