Michael Shannon Quotes
What should really be happening is a revolution. The system should be torn apart by the people and banks shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, and giant corporations shouldn't be allowed to run the world to the ground the way they're doing. But that's not happening for whatever reason.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
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The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
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I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
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It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
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What should really be happening is a revolution. The system should be torn apart by the people and banks shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, and giant corporations shouldn't be allowed to run the world to the ground the way they're doing. But that's not happening for whatever reason.
