Michael Schur Quotes

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

Michael Schur

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• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • True
  • Wrong

• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accomplished something when I get people to cheer for John Cena. I feel like I've done something.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Done
  • Feel

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trouble

• Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Helping
  • Working

• When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it's a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won't listen to a lecture from him.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• It's like, you hungry, you reached your level. We asked ten years ago. We was asking with the Panthers. We was asking with them, the Civil Rights Movement. We was asking. Those people that asked are dead and in jail. So now what do you think we're gonna do? Ask?

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Reach
  • Level

• Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • People
  • Work
  • Style

• Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.

  

  Marilyn Nelson
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Alone

• I have a lot of people depending on me - even people I didn't know depended on me.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • People

• Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • People
  • Different
  • Job

• On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

  

  David Duchovny
  • People
  • Live
  • Kids

• It's amazing to see anyone come out, let alone tell you they have been waiting so long. They are loyal people, our fans.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Long
  • Alone

• Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

  

  Jean Rostand
  • People
  • Time
  • Wish

• I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

  

  Kalup Linzy
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik
  • Eyes
  • Present
  • Gentleman

• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Single

• I love that we've chipped away at the celluloid closet and have wonderful programs that feature gay and lesbian characters in really rich, fully developed ways.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Gay
  • Lesbian

• The ultimate gathering when I was younger would be an over-the-top Christmas party. Now, ugh, it's so sad... as I'm getting older, I kind of look forward to more intimate, really nice dinners.

  

  Haylie Duff
  • Christmas Party

• You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

  

  Michael Schur
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean