Michael B. Jordan Quotes

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

Michael B. Jordan

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dad

• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Free

• I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Believe
  • Impossible

• The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Government
  • Goal
  • Creating

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Better
  • Unique
  • Cold

• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Forty

• To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Success
  • Trouble
  • Adventure

• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Down
  • Window

• If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Man
  • Know
  • Temptation

• I know all the books of the Bible.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Know
  • Bible
  • Books

• As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Professional

• As you write about your life, there's a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It's interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Character
  • Destiny

• The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.

  

  Dmitri Alperovitch
  • Great

• Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google alone, but Google's narrative worked to drive the entire story.

  

  John Battelle
  • Good
  • Book
  • Alone

• Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Reading
  • Joy

• The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.

  

  George Eliot
  • Men
  • Thoughts
  • Ems

• I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Reading
  • Film
  • Care