Michael Learned Quotes

For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.

Michael Learned

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• I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Begin

• I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Live
  • Love
  • Passion

• I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Done
  • May
  • Think

• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painting

• When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Present

• While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Through

• When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Strategy

• I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Volunteer
  • Became
  • Dalai

• Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Country
  • Parents
  • Learning

• My breasts have had a brilliant career. I've just tagged along for the ride.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Career

• We can work with anybody. I mean, we passed the 9/11 health bill with Tom Cotton. Most people would assume I wouldn't be able to work with Tom Cotton and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • People
  • Work
  • Health

• Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.

  

  Valerie Faris

• There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • World
  • Courage

• I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • People
  • Challenge

• Television programming is the number one topic on Twitter, and dozens of start-ups in the social space are linking second-screen experiences. People no longer need to sit on the same couch to enjoy a show together.

  

  Jay Samit
  • People
  • Together
  • Space

• I feel like guys, girls, whatever it is, you just come out hoping to make the best record. You just try to have a conversation and just create what you've talked about. Whatever you find to fit the beat at the time, what the person is down for, wherever the beat takes you towards.

  

  Future
  • Time

• Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • World
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Long
  • Giving

• It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff. The girls liked it. One day, he was like, 'Come to my crib. I got a studio. Come and record a hook for me.' I recorded the hook on the 'Lovers & Friends' beat - Usher.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Music
  • School
  • Friends

• For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.

  

  Michael Learned
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Seeing