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

• The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Soul
  • Ambition
  • Greatness

• 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

• I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Success
  • Patience
  • Unconditional Love

• Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Interest
  • Investment
  • Majority

• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• You're always going to miss your daily eating spots, your daily hangouts with your friends, family. I miss my family like crazy, all the time.

  

  Russell Llantino
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

  

  Miles Davis
  • American
  • Playing
  • Jazz

• 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
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  • Greatness
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