Michael Shannon Quotes
As an actor, I don't know what I'm doing. I've never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I'm scared, and I just hang out. It's like being in detention - you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what's going on.Michael Shannon
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
Zach Galifianakis -
I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
Zoe Cassavetes -
I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
Pat Boone -
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving -
Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
Nancy Gibbs -
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Mae West
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite -
People really think that the only way I got to be press secretary is because I somehow had a personal family connection to the Bushes or the Cheneys, and that wasn't true.
Dana Perino -
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson -
In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
Immanuel Kant -
I’ve found opposition to my teaching because I said it’s not the strength which does it, it’s a rhythm. You don’t need huge muscles great strength. In fact, if you have that and misuse it, you’re going to damage the material. It’s absurd. It’s a rhythmical flow of an idea, whichever sex you are.
Barbara Hepworth -
There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.
Harry Belafonte
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A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.
Bertrand Russell -
Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
Leonardo da Vinci -
When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.
Maureen O'Hara -
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
Liberty Hyde Bailey -
I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. -
I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.
James Herbert
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Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.
Joe Morton -
Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.
John McAfee -
You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.
Sean Taylor -
I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
Richard Pryor -
As an actor, I don't know what I'm doing. I've never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I'm scared, and I just hang out. It's like being in detention - you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what's going on.
Michael Shannon