Michael Shannon Quotes

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

Michael Shannon

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• A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Done
  • Vision

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Done
  • Career
  • Comedy

• The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Challenge

• Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Reader
  • Terms

• There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Good
  • News

• It takes two to get one in trouble.

  

  Mae West
  • Trouble
  • Two
  • Get

• All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Men
  • Power
  • Rest

• It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Up
  • Friend

• Be the person you want others to perceive you as. So if you want others to see you as a leader, then act like one. Don't expect things to be handed to you. You have to work for it.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Work

• When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Respect

• My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

  

  Marco Tempest
  • Free
  • Technology
  • Magic

• The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Lost
  • Mood
  • Sunrise

• Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.

  

  David Whyte
  • Life

• I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.

  

  Angus Deaton

• It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Time
  • War
  • Sex

• I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.

  

  Brett Young
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Mindset

• We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about doing what is right.

  

  Ellis Arnall
  • Learning
  • Blood
  • Talk

• The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Funny

• It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Guy
  • Evil
  • Fighting