Michael B. Jordan Quotes

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

Michael B. Jordan

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• I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Team
  • Problem

• Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Team
  • Winning

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Think
  • You
  • Terrorism

• My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Life
  • World
  • Father

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Strength
  • Both
  • Femininity

• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Know
  • Best
  • Answer

• The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Knowledge
  • Moving
  • Quality

• You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Opinion
  • Literature

• I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Live
  • Love
  • Going

• I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Inspired

• There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Work
  • Together
  • Understanding

• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Great
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • American
  • Fun

• I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Long
  • Children

• When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Earth

• You think it impossible the Convention could have a thought of war with Great Britain, and the conquest of Canada. In this point I differ from you very widely. The conduct of Great Britain, and the conduct of our States, too, was such as to keep up very serious apprehensions between the two powers. The treaty of peace was not fulfilled on either side.

  

  John Adams
  • Up
  • Great
  • War

• I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Eyes
  • Relax

• You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Risk

• …You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Best
  • Times
  • Last

• I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Risk
  • Chance
  • Filmmaker