Michael Jackson Quotes

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

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• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • American
  • Religion

• Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Why
  • Give
  • Nobody

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Player
  • Better
  • Win

• Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Kind
  • Red
  • Dirty

• I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Kind
  • Musician

• When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Friends
  • City

• Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Movie
  • Military
  • Doing

• For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Discipline
  • Losing
  • View

• The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.

  

  Ian Rush
  • I Can
  • Cook
  • Welsh

• I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Feel
  • Guilty
  • Owning

• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Universe

• One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Sushi

• It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Cool

• When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Help
  • Care
  • Model

• For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.

  

  Haley Webb
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Woman

• Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Strong

• Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

  

  Margaret Heffernan
  • Success

• I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Black
  • Pride
  • Race