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.
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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.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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No two wars are identical.
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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.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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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.
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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.
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One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
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They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.
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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.
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No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.
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My father was one of ten children.
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I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to 'Adventure Time.'
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If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.
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None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.
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We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
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I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson.
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I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?
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Bob Dole is not a bitter man. That part is jarring. His life was hard.
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It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.
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We want our communities to know what real food is.
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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.
