Michael B. Jordan Quotes

Now I like to think that I'm in my character's head so much that I don't have to substitute. I'm in the moment; I'm living in the moment. And if it's genuine, it's real, and if it comes out it comes out.

Michael B. Jordan

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Week

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Thought

• A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Time
  • Character
  • Man

• I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Achievement

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Faith
  • Principles
  • Islam

• The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Want
  • Society

• Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm not very good at strategizing.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • Very

• Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • End
  • India

• Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fall
  • Mistake

• The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Air

• I've never had the patience of a teacher.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Teacher
  • Patience

• I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Faith

• What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • People
  • Technology

• The similarities between commercial airplanes and automobiles are striking. It's all about safe and efficient transportation using the latest technology and the best fuel efficiency.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Technology

• Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

  

  Christine Keeler

• I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

  

  James Wolpert
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.

  

  Blake Lively
  • People
  • Character
  • Movie

• What makes Disney movies and Pixar movies always so good, hey take time and they're constantly honing, and tweaking, and rejiggering things, and taking influences from every cog, including myself, that can help. Any place where there can be inspiration. They make every moment very layered and very rich.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Moments
  • Inspiration
  • Movies

• Now I like to think that I'm in my character's head so much that I don't have to substitute. I'm in the moment; I'm living in the moment. And if it's genuine, it's real, and if it comes out it comes out.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Character
  • Moments
  • Genuine