Michael Shannon Quotes
I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.
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If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.
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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
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And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
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I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.
