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Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it,


Michael J. Sullivan

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...when
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J. MICHAEL BISHOP If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy...
MICHAEL J. FOX People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not be...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we belie...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's ju...
MICHAEL J. FOX My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
MICHAEL J. FOX I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
MICHAEL J. FOX My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, i...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, st...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United S...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, o...
MICHAEL J. COHEN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan...
MICHAEL J. FOX Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.
MICHAEL J. COHEN Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any a...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's pos...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless i...
MICHAEL J. FOX Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What mak...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others......
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Pity is a benign form of abuse.
MICHAEL J. FOX The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
MICHAEL J. FOX Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient...
MICHAEL J. FOX After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going...
MICHAEL J. FOX There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can mak...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological current...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a te...
MICHAEL J. FOX I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interes...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going...
MICHAEL J. FOX I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is...
MICHAEL J FOX My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd ...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those f...
MICHAEL J. FOX I think there's a god and I know it's not me.
MICHAEL J. FOX There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end...
MICHAEL J. FOX When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an opt...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in s...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning act...
MICHAEL J. FOX