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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I was a tomboy.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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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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The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
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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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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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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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Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.
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Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.
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A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!
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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing.
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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?
