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XAVIER DOLAN I have a coffee mug that my dad gave me years ago that has the San Mateo police logo and my dad'... MICHAEL TRUCCO I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born w... TARA REID But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either i... PATRICK MARBER There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the ... DAVID CRYSTAL Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea... IAN MACKAYE I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ... VANESSA WILLIAMS If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes whe... ROBERT PATTINSON The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzli... QUENTIN BRYCE There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of... 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MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q... MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others. MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea... MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili... MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba... MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:... MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco... MICHAEL SHERMER Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari... MICHAEL DIRDA Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ... MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st... MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm... MICHAEL MCCAUL I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f... MICHAEL KORDA What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not... MICHAEL VICK That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I... MICHAEL VICK Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho... MICHAEL ENDE In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ... MICHAEL KORDA Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab... MICHAEL GREGER T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ... MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'... MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i... MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot... MICHAEL PATERNITI I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful. MICHAEL LANDES Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ... MICHAEL PATERNITI I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were... MICHAEL BERGIN Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of ge... MICHAEL POLLAN Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. ... MICHAEL GREGER I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo... MICHAEL BOND