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Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.
Melissa Bank
Me
You
Creative
Mind
Met
Tell
Details
Boring
Instantly
Most
Am
Person
Anyone
Ask
Mud
Turns
Fun
Ever
Basically
Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.
Michael Bacon
Music
You
Reality
People
Disagree
Will
Nothing
About
Give
True
Piece
Answers
Lot
Any
Listen
Meaning
Fifteen
Basically
I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.
Michael Biehn
Day
Director
Style
Own
Every
Think
Directed
Hours
Got
His
Just
Screamed
Eight
Different
Mean
Twelve
Basically
I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.
Michael Buble
Together
Before
Every
Mimic
Find
About
Steal
Voice
Could
Take
Put
Study
Got
Years
Person
Get
Did
Stole
Artists
Different
Loved
Them
Things
Basically
I think a lot of hedge funds get their trades from Wall Street and get their ideas from Wall Street. And I just like to find my own ideas. I'm reading a lot; I read a lot of news. I'm addicted to it. I basically - I follow my nose on news stories.
Michael Burry
News
Reading
Own
Think
Addicted
Find
Follow
My Own
Like
Ideas
Read
Trades
Lot
Wall
Wall Street
Get
Just
Nose
Stories
Hedge
Street
Funds
Basically
I grew up watching 'Star Trek.' I love 'Star Trek.' 'Star Trek' made me want to see alien creatures, creatures from a far-distant world. But basically, I figured out that I could find those alien creatures right on Earth. And what I do is I study insects.
Michael Dickinson
Love
Me
World
Alien
Insects
Made
Trek
Earth
Those
Out
Find
See
Could
Study
Up
Want
Grew
Figured
Star
Star Trek
Creatures
Right
Watching
Basically
There's so many mysteries related to how flies are able to make their way through the world. I'd certainly like to know a lot more about how their brain works. I'd certainly like to know a lot more about just how they're put together. I mean, these animals are basically, topologically, spheres. They don't have bones as we do, of course.
Michael Dickinson
Together
World
Mysteries
Animals
Related
Way
Spheres
Able
About
More
Through
Put
Like
Know
Make
Course
How
Brain
Lot
Just
Mean
Certainly
Flies
Many
Works
Basically
Bones
The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.
Michael Douglas
Strength
You
Business
Profit
Other
Besides
Distribution
Eat
Some
Cost
Studios
Developing
Know
Material
Any
Center
Film
Film Business
Basically
You can actually take people with these precancerous lesions, and basically paint black raspberries on them, and they nearly vanish.
Michael Greger
You
People
Black
Vanish
Take
Them
Paint
Nearly
Actually
Basically
Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.
Michael Hogan
Me
You
Doctor
School
Same Thing
Gone
Trapped
Television
Television Series
Television Shows
Doing
Normal
Get
Same
Being
Wanted
Regular
Episodic
Your
Series
Shows
Medical
Cop
Thing
Medical School
Basically
I basically was a precocious little kid.
Michael Ironside
Kid
Precocious
Little
Little Kid
Basically
My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.
Michael Lee-Chin
Wealth
Individual
Had
Shares
Came
Liquid
Liquidity
Transferred
Biggest
Businesses
Growing
Now
Basically
Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.
Michael Mullen
Time
Me
Change
People
Path
Own
Living
Think
Focused
Tells
My Own
Attach
Put
Institution
Sort
Go
Up
Very
Personal
Going
Where
Center
Then
Interests
Grown
Grown-Up
Basically
Career
Career Path
Desires
I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.
Michael Mullen
You
Military
Strategy
President
Guy
He
Supports
Know
Policy
Makes
Wants
Decisions
Basically
In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.
Michael Ovitz
Government
Business
Together
People
Management
School
College
Think
Philosophy
Out
High
Eastern
High School
Student
Studied
Blended
Concept
Also
Sport
Learned
Deal
How
Came
Western
Just
Fan
Them
Ethic
Avid
Basically
I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.
Michael Owen
Age
Three
Changed
Other
Running
Compromised
Got
Been
Leg
Middle
Whole
Injury
Right
Basically
Career
Two
Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.
Michael Patrick Jann
Life
Opportunities
My Life
Think
Given
Had
Look
Lucky
Basically
Basically, farm chemicals are labor-saving devices, and farmers who don't use them - weed killers especially - have to work harder or hire more help.
Michael Pollan
Work
Weed
Farm
More
Devices
Chemicals
Hire
Them
Use
Farmers
Help
Who
Harder
Basically
Units were coming to combat with DCGS because it was their tool kit, so to speak, but they basically had it boxed up and parked in a corner. They were using off-the-shelf stuff they were having to buy prior to coming into the theater.
Michael T. Flynn
Buy
Speak
Corner
Tool
Having
Kit
Parked
Had
Combat
Stuff
Boxed
Because
Prior
Coming
Were
Up
Theater
Using
Units
Basically
But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.
Michael Tilson Thomas
World
Focus
Important
Become
Enormous
Symphony
Symphony Orchestra
Able
Part
Instantly
Demands
Performers
Particular
Know
How
Sound
Shift
Repertoire
Repertory
Very
Orchestra
Large
Company
Basically
There's Psalms that tell you things that nobody tells you - that you're fearfully and wonderfully made, that you're beautiful, that you have worth, basically.
Michaela Coel
Beautiful
You
Worth
Made
Tell
Tells
Nobody
Wonderfully
Psalms
Things
Basically
I think nothing I've done has impacted my life as much as working on 'Treme,' because it was the first project that I worked on in the United States after being an actor in the Netherlands my whole life, basically.
Michiel Huisman
Life
My Life
First
Nothing
Think
Project
States
Impacted
Netherlands
Because
Done
Being
After
Worked
Much
Working
Whole
United
Actor
United States
Basically
I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It's an oral history of black women's lives through laughter.
Mickalene Thomas
History
Women
Remember
Laughter
Black
Pretending
Girl
Long
Hair
First
White
Luxurious
Relate
Everyone
Saw
Wearing
Through
Remember When
Head
She
Sheet
Doing
Blonde
Blonde Hair
Oral
Little
Standup
Lives
Her
Basically
It takes a long time to get a reputation for quality. There are people in our industry, they're basically copiers. Look at the cars on the streets. They all look alike. But if you put quality into a product, then have it validated, you have huge credibility.
Mickey Drexler
Time
You
Quality
People
Car
Long
Long Time
Reputation
Validated
Our
Alike
Put
Takes
Look
Industry
Huge
Get
Then
Product
Credibility
Streets
Basically
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.
Micky Dolenz
Organization
Club
Like
Democratic
Hall
Rock
Rock And Roll
Private
Fame
Roll
Going
Decide
Golf
Golf Club
Public
Who
Basically
We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.
Miguel Nicolelis
Out
Computational
Brains
Created
Unit
Basically
Two
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