Mike Shinoda Quotes
If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.
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The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?
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Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.
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I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.
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If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.
