Michael Learned Quotes

I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.

Michael Learned

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• Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • American
  • Too Much

• Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Powerful
  • Mystery
  • Emotions

• I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Past

• The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Science
  • Like
  • Physics

• Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Family
  • Know

• In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Should

• Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Crazy
  • Media
  • Lights

• I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Work
  • Living
  • Sounds

• I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Think
  • Play
  • Lucky

• Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Energy
  • Know

• An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Old

• My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Up
  • Family
  • Small

• We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Mystery
  • Comfort
  • Contradiction

• I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • High

• This one is for the boys in the polos Entrepreneur niggas & the moguls

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Boys
  • Entrepreneur
  • Flirty

• If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Play
  • Hands
  • Guitar

• Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

  

  Niklas Zennstrom
  • Communicate
  • Skype
  • Cheapest

• I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Moral
  • Television
  • Operation

• Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Why
  • She
  • Mean

• But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Real
  • Fun
  • You

• I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.

  

  Michael Learned
  • Mean
  • Television
  • Insult