Michael Shannon Quotes

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

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• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Man
  • Daughter

• I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Doing
  • Champion

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • People
  • Always
  • Labels

• I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • School
  • Business

• Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • America
  • Hate

• I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Song
  • Ugly

• As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • May
  • Day

• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • You
  • Friendships

• I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Bad
  • Reality

• Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Fashion

• I think people who really want to do something do it. No matter what. And they won't quit until they do it.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People

• A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role because, of course, it's really not me.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Writing

• Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

  

  John Wilkins
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

  

  Jean Dujardin
  • Family
  • Simple

• Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • World
  • Today
  • Technology

• I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Familiar