Michael Shannon Quotes
If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.
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It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
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To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
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Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.
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I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.'
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.
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What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original.
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If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?
