Michael Malone Quotes

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Michael Malone

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• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Long
  • Very
  • Function

• Happiness is very simple and minimal.

  

  Tablo
  • Simple
  • Happiness
  • Very

• I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Fighting
  • Thrive

• Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Country
  • Rock

• I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Gatherings

• People have paid for content. They always have.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Always
  • Content

• Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Men
  • Courage
  • Patience

• How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

  

  Edward Young
  • Dark
  • Sun

• Oh please...As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Up
  • World
  • Girl

• 'Aren’t you even curious?' he asked. 'A million worlds out there with more wonders than I could tell you in a million years, and you don’t even want to ask a question?'

  

  Leigh Brackett
  • Question

• I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Time
  • Power
  • Age

• The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Actions
  • Passions

• I'm a firm believer that your lifestyle plays a key role in the state of your complexion.

  

  Kenza Fourati

• If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Age

• My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.

  

  Jimmy Dean
  • Done
  • Song
  • Eyes

• A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Live
  • May

• I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Sick
  • Opera
  • Soap

• I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• I believed in our group this past season, as well. While we did not achieve what we needed to, this group worked to deal with various obstacles, and I am proud of their efforts - especially their work in recent weeks (finished on 9-1-2 run) when they overcame significant odds to almost attain a playoff berth after we dug a huge hole for ourselves.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Work
  • Past
  • Proud

• When you get into comparisons in any way of, 'we want it to be like this' or 'we don't want it to be like this,' it takes away from the authenticity of what you're trying to say and what you're trying to make.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Trying
  • Authenticity

• I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

  

  Michael Malone
  • Faith
  • Failure
  • Taboos