M. Shadows Quotes

No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.

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• Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Twitter

• I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Mind
  • Real
  • American

• My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Husband
  • Enjoy
  • Season

• You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Saying

• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Some

• You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • You
  • Know
  • Born

• If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

  

  Feist
  • You
  • Fall
  • Wall

• I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Always
  • Chess
  • Take

• The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Government
  • Broken
  • Three

• Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Wisdom
  • Shoes
  • Saying

• In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Equality
  • Racism
  • Treat

• Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Long

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Living
  • Background

• There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Political
  • Black
  • Church

• She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Pretty
  • Smart
  • Unusual

• 1 + 1 = 1

  

  Lynn Margulis

• When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Men

• I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

  

  Moon Bloodgood
  • Chance
  • Inspired
  • Creative

• The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • She
  • Power

• To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Fear
  • Impossible
  • Overcoming

• I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

  

  James Avery

• No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.

  

  M. Shadows