Mika (Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.) Quotes

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

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• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Time
  • Think
  • Future

• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Government
  • Human
  • Act

• I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Interview

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• Men are visual creatures.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Men
  • Creatures
  • Visual

• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Sexy
  • Word

• I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Teacher

• My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Music
  • Politics

• Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.

  

  Sam Altman
  • America
  • Social
  • Feet

• If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Children
  • Think
  • Hungry

• I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Up
  • Science
  • Wise

• My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Life
  • Education
  • My Life

• If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • You
  • Brother
  • Him

• It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Important
  • Family
  • Cancer

• I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Think
  • You
  • Said

• I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Books
  • Fiction

• It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.

  

  Max Hastings
  • Family
  • Why
  • Serious

• My first draft of Marvel Knights 'Black Panther' was not funny at all. They smartly rejected the entire script and counseled me to inject liberal doses of humor into very serious subject matter.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Black
  • Funny
  • Serious

• The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Way

• The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

  

  Mika
  • Way
  • Serious
  • Possible