Michael B. Jordan Quotes

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

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• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• I always knew I was destined for greatness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Always
  • Greatness
  • Destined

• Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Politics
  • Greatness
  • Needed

• When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Remember
  • Food
  • Names

• Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Today
  • Everyday
  • Greatness

• Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Greatness

• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Persons

• There aren't many people in the world that are as respected and loved when it comes to entertainment and as big as Pac. But the greatness that I adore the most is him as a man.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Greatness

• I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Greatness

• My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

  

  Jim Ramstad
  • Life
  • America
  • Greatness

• Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

  

  John W. Gardner
  • People
  • Greatness
  • Excellence

• The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as dispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Men
  • Power
  • Question

• I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Energy

• I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Persons

• The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Power
  • Persons

• My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Purpose
  • Should
  • Able

• You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Relationship
  • Persons
  • Coming Out

• A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

  

  Arthur Powell Davies
  • Good
  • Character
  • Today

• I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Blood
  • Names
  • Naked

• Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Kind
  • King
  • Persons

• The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

  

  Michael J. Saylor
  • Education
  • Government
  • Chinese

• We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Way
  • Away

• How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

  

  C. F. Powell
  • Great

• I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Persons
  • Greatness
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