Michael Shannon Quotes
My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
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Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.
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There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.
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I thought [Johnny Wujek] was really cute. And so, I was super shy about getting naked in front of him. I didn't want to show him my goods...because I thought he might be straight.
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Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here.
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I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
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It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
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The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.
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As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.
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I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.
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When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.
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I guess I'd just been thinking about it for so long that I forgot changing your gender was not even a question for most people. They just took for granted being a boy or a girl. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be so sure of yourself.
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If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.
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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
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I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.
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My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
