Michael Harney Quotes

Even when I do roles that are really profoundly abusive, like, I would say, in 'Deadwood' - there's a guy who's a breeding ground for ignorance and hurtful behavior - the fact that people are so taken aback by that is a good thing because they're looking at themselves, and there's a part of me in there, too.

Michael Harney

• People
• Good
• Ignorance
• Looking
• Roles
• Part
• Breeding
• Abusive
• Deadwood

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• How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Courage
  • Ambition

• Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Desire

• My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Father
  • Pretty

• When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • True
  • Mathematics

• Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

  

  Om Puri
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Wife

• He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Back
  • Prison
  • Buy

• The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Question
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Life
  • Love
  • Respect

• When you're young and have the opportunity, it's crucial to learn as much as possible about your profession from every possible angle.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Opportunity
  • Learn
  • Young

• I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Heart
  • High

• There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

  

  Earle Brown
  • Music
  • Political
  • Creation

• You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Change
  • Couple
  • Feel

• For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

  

  Veronica Webb
  • People
  • Game
  • Control

• Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

  

  Yann Martel
  • High
  • Fear
  • Food

• ...Meanwhile in the USA paranoid Republicans have accused Barack Obama of being a ruthless despot hatching conspiracies to destroy the foundations of American society – yet in eight years of his presidency he barely managed to pass a minor health-care reform.

  

  Yuval Noah Harari
  • American
  • Society
  • Health

• We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Decision

• It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end up with my picture in the press.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Shadow

• Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• Even when I do roles that are really profoundly abusive, like, I would say, in 'Deadwood' - there's a guy who's a breeding ground for ignorance and hurtful behavior - the fact that people are so taken aback by that is a good thing because they're looking at themselves, and there's a part of me in there, too.

  

  Michael Harney
  • People
  • Good
  • Ignorance