Michael Jackson Quotes

Truth always prevails. And I believe in that. I believe in God.

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• Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Country
  • War
  • Free

• I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Girl

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Strange
  • Negative
  • Publicity

• I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Control

• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • English
  • Better
  • Broken

• I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Time
  • Long
  • Down

• One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • History
  • Artist

• Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke

• A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Dark

• The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Lost
  • Dad
  • Weird

• I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Boy

• I think I've developed a sort of ADD for geography now. When I've been in a country for too long, I'm like, 'I think it's time to leave.' I don't know what that's going to do to me in later life.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • People
  • Time
  • Evil

• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

  

  Don Marquis

• I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

  

  Bobby Lee
  • People
  • Up
  • Crazy

• If there is a God and you believe in him, you know the best is yet to come.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Believe

• My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Past

• We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

  

  Richard Wright Pink Floyd
  • Music
  • Lyrics
  • Questions

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• Truth always prevails. And I believe in that. I believe in God.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Truth