Michael J. Willett Quotes

I guess I sort of got bullied in high school but no more than anyone else. I felt like everyone was weird or different.

Michael J. Willett

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• As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Bad
  • Reality
  • Hills

• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Character
  • Desire

• The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Proud
  • Military
  • Thought

• They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Blood
  • Desert
  • Sand

• I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • World
  • Thought
  • Model

• I have a pig valve.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Pig
  • Valve

• I was actually a Cowboys fan.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Fan
  • Actually
  • Cowboys

• I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

  

  Nas
  • Always
  • Matter
  • Rap

• In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Dad
  • Paradise
  • Rocky

• Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

  

  Ovid
  • Women
  • Same
  • Just

• I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Live
  • Moment
  • I Can

• I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Friend
  • Civilization
  • Actions

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Time
  • War
  • Political

• But I would dance with my daughter if I could. And if I can dance with Shilpa Shetty, then I will do that- (On being asked in an interview whether it was suitable for a man his age to dance in a song in the film Lal Badshah with Shilpa Shetty, who was young enough to be his daughter).

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Age
  • Song
  • Dance

• Class instinct is subjective and spontaneous. ... To arrive at proletarian class positions, the class instinct of proletarians only needs to be educated; the class instinct of the petty bourgeoisie, and hence of intellectuals, has, on the contrary, to be revolutionized.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Petty

• I am an adult, but a damaged one.

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Adults

• Skyler, you are the love of my life, I hope you know that. Walter junior, you're my big man. There are... there are going to be some things, things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. I just want you to know that, no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.

  

  Walter White
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Matter

• When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

  

  Manika
  • World
  • Experience
  • Audience

• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Experience
  • Unique

• We need to be able to guarantee the safety of all artists and activists for human rights so that it no longer takes extraordinary courage to call for a better world - so that every person with the ability to imagine peace, equality, progress, and justice can express their dreams and hopes without fear.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • World
  • Fear
  • Peace

• I guess I sort of got bullied in high school but no more than anyone else. I felt like everyone was weird or different.

  

  Michael J. Willett
  • Different
  • School
  • Everyone