Michael Tubbs Quotes

I was born and raised in the south side of Stockton, California, to a mother still in high school and a father in a juvenile detention facility.

Michael Tubbs

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FatherMotherSchoolHigh School

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Stephen Hawking

TimeTravelImpossibleUnderstand

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.

Torsten Wiesel

LifeExperienceEnvironmentalEarly

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

Tony Kushner

SuccessThinkSayKindMeanRealist

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

Michael Stipe

MusicDayPeopleWorldYouCasual

I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork.

Lizz Wright

WordsAmazingThinkMeaningYou

I appreciate the level of professionalism and talent that I get to be around every night, eight times a week.

Diana DeGarmo

TalentNightAppreciateWeekLevel

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Dick Morris

PositiveLeaderYouPartyWhyImage

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

Denzel Washington

WorkAgeWomanFindingYouYoung

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

Corrine Brown

WorkPeopleSafetyTransportation

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.

Art Alexakis

GoodMeThinkKnowSoundWrite

There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. But by no means do I think I'm the most powerful person.

Sundar Pichai

WomenMenThinkPowerfulPerson

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.

Richard Rohr

CultureMeChoicesGroupPoint

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