Michael McKean Quotes

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Question
  • Purpose

• I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel

• Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Health

• So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Revolution

• I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Wife
  • Looks
  • Terrific

• Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Empty

• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Will
  • Almost

• If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • People
  • Spring
  • Greek

• So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Up
  • Like
  • Enough

• I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Play
  • Tennis
  • Used

• I have heard of that idea i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that I would be replaced by the oncoming generation, and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Jesus
  • Mistake

• Catfights? What catfights? There is a healthy rivalry between me and other actresses but no one’s ever been bitchy. Kareena Kapoor is a cool girl. As for Preity Zinta, we share an on-screen rapport but we were never friends.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Friends
  • Girl
  • Cool

• At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Economic
  • Trade
  • Assuming

• All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • War
  • Peace
  • Mean

• I swallowed down all the words, until they knotted up in my throat, and now I'm choking on I love you's and please don't go's.

  

  Jessica Katoff
  • Words
  • Throat

• I love London, even though the weather's not great. I've travelled the world and I've lived in Paris, Germany, Los Angeles and New York but I love the parks, the theatre and the Britishness and the way that all these communities have integrated.

  

  Limahl
  • World
  • Germany
  • Communities

• I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.

  

  Martin Landau

• I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

  

  Michael McKean
  • Believe
  • Regret