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Mika Quotes

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: August 18, 1983

Topics

I Am People You Place Kind Nowhere

I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

Sports Growing Up Growing Young Up

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

Alphonsus Liguori

Love God Busy You Nothing Act

I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begin to develop - in inheritance laws, tax laws, laws for favoring trade unions, protecting them, and so forth. All these are social changes.

Change Face Country Tax Unions Laws

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

Marvin Hamlisch

Music Thought Always Highway Many

When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.

Saying Week Out Professor Fellowship

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Work You Teach Principles Reason

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

Men World Class English Who Betting

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

Rich You Never Get Understood

When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power.

Power Responsibility Racism Think

There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing.

Time Doing Hands Trying Dirty Years

I can't believe the sense of community here, the amount of pride the people who run this city have in Las Vegas. They are wonderful.

Community People City Believe Pride

I wanted to write 'In Harm's Way' from the young men's point of view of being in a raft, or hanging in a life vest with just their nose poking above the water.

Life Water Men View Point Of View

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