Molly Shannon Quotes

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

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• If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Future
  • Environment
  • Problems

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Reading
  • Day
  • Summer

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Elderly

• From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Value
  • Challenge

• I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Proud
  • Involved
  • Simon

• But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• To be looked at from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass' with one eye, close to, for almost an hour.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Work
  • Art

• When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • Homecoming

• School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • School

• If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.

  

  David Hewson
  • Why
  • Hero
  • Planning

• All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Forever
  • Poverty

• Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Strong

• Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Success

• I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • Trying
  • Littles