Michael Shannon Quotes

It is surprising that people are snapping photos and stuff and then putting them on the internet. For me, it is like, "Why would you want to do that?" It would be like knowing what your Christmas presents were before Christmas morning.

Michael Shannon

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• Internet
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• I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Up
  • She
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• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Work
  • Walk
  • Work Hard

• I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
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• No two wars are identical.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Two
  • Wars
  • Identical

• As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Family
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  • Freedom

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
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  • Trust

• I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Afrikaans

• You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Color

• On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Want
  • You
  • Questions

• Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women

• What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People

• One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

  

  Jacques Chirac

• They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
  • People

• A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Real
  • American
  • Feeling

• No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Black

• My father was one of ten children.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Children
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• I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to 'Adventure Time.'

  

  Jeremy Shada
  • Time
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• If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

  

  Kesha
  • Important

• Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Up

• I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.

  

  Alex Rocco
  • Stupid

• Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

  

  John Keegan
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Drug

• It is surprising that people are snapping photos and stuff and then putting them on the internet. For me, it is like, "Why would you want to do that?" It would be like knowing what your Christmas presents were before Christmas morning.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Morning
  • Internet