Michael Chabon Quotes

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

Michael Chabon

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Reality
  • Fake

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Great
  • Conversation

• People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Job
  • See

• We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Person
  • Animals

• I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fear

• Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Suicide

• The so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night. It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism. … Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in person.'

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Dream
  • Night

• The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Mind
  • Science

• Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Time

• In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • People
  • Free
  • Culture

• I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Black
  • Stop
  • Star

• I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.

  

  Maria Muldaur
  • Rock

• There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Time
  • Book

• Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

  

  Michael Chabon
  • People
  • Attention
  • Boring