Michael Jackson Quotes

I think secretly and privately there is a destiny for me and just for me to stay on that track and follow it. I really believe and feel I am here for a reason and that's my job, you know, to perform for the people and if they accept it that I am rewarded.

Michael Jackson

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Religion
  • Without

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Literature
  • Nervous

• All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Looking
  • Big
  • Market

• Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Dress

• I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Favorite

• You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Game
  • You
  • Alert

• Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Life
  • Work
  • Change

• The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Believe
  • Game
  • Giving

• I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Poor
  • Projects

• One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.

  

  Os Guinness
  • World
  • Key
  • Sociology

• Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • America
  • Spanish

• Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Nice
  • Dumb
  • Grow

• There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Country
  • History
  • Past

• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • May
  • True

• Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Up
  • War

• In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Business

• To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Sympathy
  • Nations
  • Correct

• I think secretly and privately there is a destiny for me and just for me to stay on that track and follow it. I really believe and feel I am here for a reason and that's my job, you know, to perform for the people and if they accept it that I am rewarded.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Job
  • Reason
  • Destiny