Michael Anti Quotes

There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.

Michael Anti

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• I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

  

  La India
  • Career
  • Change
  • Myself

• Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Good
  • Philosophy

• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Want
  • Never
  • Write

• I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Worth
  • Lot

• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Start

• I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Country
  • Home
  • Years

• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
  • Chicago

• Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Real
  • Character
  • Myself

• The truth is, I'm not body confident.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Truth
  • Body
  • Truth Is

• I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Write
  • First
  • Guilty

• Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Kind
  • Fast

• I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Pleasure

• If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don't run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That's how I know that the workouts are working - I miss them if I don't have them.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Start

• I had to do something for the country.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Country
  • Something
  • Had

• See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Power
  • Truth

• Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Alone
  • Heaven

• I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Long
  • Scene
  • Harder

• I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make – believe.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Audience
  • Stage
  • Theater

• A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • World
  • History
  • Chinese

• I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Culture
  • Tradition
  • Religious Family

• Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Research
  • Tradition
  • Conditions

• There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.

  

  Michael Anti
  • Chinese
  • Tradition
  • Journalist