Michael Shanks Quotes
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
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Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?
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If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.
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In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
