Michael Shannon Quotes

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

Michael Shannon

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• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Remember
  • Hand
  • Son

• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Man
  • Best

• I've never been strong with my time-management skills.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Never

• In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Summer

• I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Empathy

• In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • War
  • Movie

• Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Future
  • Past
  • Focus

• I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. They want something that's real, and I think I give that to them.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• 'If you run before God, you cannot run after God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God

• I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Good
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Dream

• Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Music
  • Different
  • Art

• I'm a broadcaster who happens to be liberal, and not the other way around.

  

  Alan Colmes

• I did a couple of American Express commercials.

  

  Jason Dohring
  • American
  • Couple

• I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

  

  James Callaghan

• Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

  

  James Dyson
  • Business

• Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Free

• It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

  

  Janos Kadar
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• We look at politicians and think: This one's owned by this millionaire. That one's owned by that millionaire, or lobbyist, or special interest group. Me? I speak for the people. So the establishment attacks me. They can't own me, they can't dictate to me, so they search for ways to dismiss me.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Search

• O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated, Well may you launch your vessel Upon the deep sea.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Singing
  • Sea
  • Angel

• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• Now, of my threescore years and ten,Twenty will not come again,And take from seventy springs a score,It only leaves me fifty more.And since to look at things in bloomFifty springs are little room,About the woodlands I will goTo see the cherry hung with snow.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Snow

• People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Emotional