Michael Jackson Quotes

No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.

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• I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • She
  • Friend
  • Jazz

• Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Lost

• I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Small
  • Loss

• I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Me

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Remember
  • American
  • Reading

• I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Sleep

• I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • House
  • Me
  • Weight

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Financial
  • Said
  • Collapse

• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• What is without periods of rest will not endure.

  

  Ovid
  • Rest
  • Will
  • Without

• My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Actor
  • Influences
  • Were

• A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • Character
  • Culture

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Change
  • Moral
  • Nothing

• Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Everything
  • Greed
  • Destroys

• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Free

• No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.

  

  Michael Jackson
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