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.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Person

• And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

  

  Little Richard
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Great
  • Balance
  • Human Rights

• 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.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Cute
  • Straight
  • Johnny Wujek

• Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

  

  Walker Percy
  • War
  • Peace
  • Sense

• We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Singing

• I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Workout
  • Resistance

• 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.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Yael Dayan
  • Peace
  • Two
  • Love Is

• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Christianity
  • Self-Denial

• Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

  

  Don McLean
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• 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.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Different
  • Emotions
  • Capable

• I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

  

  Katherine Shindle
  • Guess
  • Wondering
  • Figured

• I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Giving
  • Space
  • Littles

• 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.

  

  Michael Shannon
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