Michael Pena Quotes

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

Michael Pena

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 13, 1976

Topics

PeopleMeNameKnowWantOut

I don't like to lose, man. I think that's where it starts for me. If we're not winning games, then I don't smile too often.

Jimmy Butler

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I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

Jeremy Clarkson

GreatWaterManMeBoatIce

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

John Maynard Smith

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Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Trey Parker

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So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.

Tommy Rettig

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Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.

Diplo

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I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

Douglas Booth

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I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure.

Chloe Benjamin

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When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

Antonia Fraser

DayColdYouKnowWriteSure

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

Sharon Tate

LoveChildrenPeopleProcessNow

I became more interested in the idea of being an immigrant and particularly of being in a country you're not familiar with. And so I began reading migrants' stories. The fact that my father is Chinese - he emigrated from Malaysia when he was about 20 - may have had some bearing on my attraction to the subject.

Shaun Tan

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