Michael Oher Quotes

If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good.

Michael Oher

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• My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Athlete

• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Sometimes
  • Three
  • Cookie

• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Differences

• The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Done

• Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Trying
  • Road
  • Choices

• A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Success
  • Respect
  • Artist

• Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Slavery

• My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Music
  • Responsibility

• I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.

  

  Collis Potter Huntington
  • Country
  • Success

• Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • World
  • Comedy

• The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

  

  Jil Sander
  • Why
  • May
  • Strong

• I think there's a mystery to drawing - to the weight of the lines. The sweep of a line around a corner to create an effect that someone is moving.

  

  Don Wright
  • Moving
  • Drawing

• I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, 'Thank God it's not just me!'

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • God
  • Chaos

• To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones

• I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Career
  • Funny

• I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Kill
  • Therapy

• I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• When you shampoo your hair, you're trying to get the oil out of your roots, but you really want the rest of your hair to maintain its moisture. When you put coconut oil on the ends, the shampoo gets oil out of the roots, but also protects the ends.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Trying
  • Rest
  • Hair

• If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good.

  

  Michael Oher
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Honor