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I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.


Michael J. Fox

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MICHAEL J. SANDEL First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin...
MICHAEL J. SANDEL I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemica...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix...
MICHAEL J. COHEN They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, t...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel...
MICHAEL J. BEHE It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl...
J. MICHAEL BREWER The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ...
MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula...
MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc...
MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or...
MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ...
MICHAEL J. BEHE There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm.
“Yes, I see it, but—”
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MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN