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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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'm the assistant - you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I'm trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.
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The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
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I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.
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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.
