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

• From natural disasters to the refugee crises, the impact we can have as individuals might seem limited. But as many of our hosts know, sharing your home for even a few nights can make a tremendous difference in someone's life.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Life
  • Home

• I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Faith

• Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street?

  

  Caroline Myss
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • Up
  • Taken

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

  

  Michael Jackson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Truth