Michael Mina Quotes

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

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• I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Work
  • Music
  • Football

• When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Differences
  • Out

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Support
  • Value
  • Talent

• I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Alone
  • Matter
  • Author

• A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Mind
  • May
  • Light

• An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • Challenge

• There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Mirror

• I think we're going to demonstrate the power of one-to-one computer access that's going to transform education. … The economic future will belong to the technologically adept.

  

  Angus King
  • Power
  • Future
  • Education

• Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.

  

  Jason Alexander

• You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Mother
  • Famous

• House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Good
  • Music
  • House

• I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Friends
  • Amazing
  • Childhood

• We want to see ourselves - but differently. We want to see these dream versions of ourselves. We want to be surprised; we want to be entertained. I think primarily, especially in this country, we ask that movies entertain us, which seems to be something they're less and less likely to do on a continual basis.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Country
  • Dream

• What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

  

  Alan Cohen

• I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Career
  • Focus

• Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • She
  • Mother
  • Passion

• Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • People
  • Time
  • Giving

• Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Choices

• I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

  

  John Travolta
  • Art
  • Amazing
  • Artist

• There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Memories

• When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

  

  Michael Mina
  • Choices
  • Doctors
  • Immigrants