Lorne Michaels Quotes

I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

Lorne Michaels

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• There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • May
  • Door
  • Voice

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.

  

  Iman
  • Like
  • Look
  • Everyday

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Thought
  • First
  • Rapper

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • inspirational
  • Start
  • Over

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Work
  • Look
  • Well

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Years
  • Old
  • Talk

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Feeling
  • Need
  • Project

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Victory
  • Lose
  • Underdog

• My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Real
  • Me
  • Mom

• I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

  

  Earl King
  • Jump
  • Head
  • Gymnastics

• A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Meet

• It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Well
  • Against

• A naked blade sheathed in velvet, that was Raphael's voice.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Voice
  • Naked
  • Velvet

• I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Space

• There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people. . .

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Cause
  • Maintain

• The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Trying
  • Sweet
  • Expecting

• I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Thinking
  • Voice
  • Originals