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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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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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.
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I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.
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Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.
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In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we're not just taking - that we're not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn't do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere.
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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.
