Michael Shannon Quotes

The magic word for me is pumpernickel. I love pumpernickel. I must have some Russian blood in me because I could just eat pumpernickel and raw onions.

Michael Shannon

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• Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Want
  • Church
  • Trump

• I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • God
  • Light

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Public
  • Intellectual

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • World
  • Career

• If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Connections

• You can get beat any day.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Day
  • Beat

• I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Exciting
  • Quite
  • Improvisation

• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Morning

• In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mind

• Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.

  

  James Madison
  • Long
  • Character

• For me, it is important to pick up characters which I can relate to. Or I recall an incident in my life or tap into my innermost emotions and try to bring that reality on to the screen.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• My wife and I love to travel, so if we don't have work on either her or my birthday, we definitely travel.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Work
  • Wife
  • Travel

• I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Virtual reality is already affecting people on an emotional level much more than any other media, and it has the potential to scale: all you need is an attachment for your cellphone, and you can have this experience.

  

  Chris Milk
  • People
  • Experience
  • Reality

• I was such a fan of Aziz. I watched 'Parks and Rec' like every other self-respecting hipster and loved his character so much and just thought he was so interesting.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Hipster

• Nobody is going to believe what you're saying if you don't believe it yourself.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Believe

• I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Like
  • Dark
  • Break

• My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Education

• This is a magic place. It's one of my favorite buildings in Paris.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Magic
  • Paris
  • Favorite

• The magic word for me is pumpernickel. I love pumpernickel. I must have some Russian blood in me because I could just eat pumpernickel and raw onions.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Magic