Michael Shannon Quotes
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
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Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.
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If you make a movie in the UK you've got to embrace the weather with open arms... We got some of the most amazing weather as well. It's maybe why some of these places, like the Lake District, don't get filmed in so much. If you were trying to make it look like some kind of chocolate box image of England you'd be there all year waiting for the sun to come out.
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.
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If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
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The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
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I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.
