Michael Jackson Quotes

It all went by so fast, didn't it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do.

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• The incorrect supposition that we live in a world of scarce resources has done more than preclude most individuals from achieving economic success. Over the centuries, this zero-sum-game view of the world has been responsible for wars, revolutions, political strategies, and human suffering of unfathomable proportions.

  

  Paul Zane Pilzer
  • World
  • Live
  • Done

• Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Sad

• If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

  

  Heraclitus
  • Soul
  • Search
  • Traveled

• You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Try
  • Achieve
  • Possible

• A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Danger
  • Sound banker
  • Orthodox way

• So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

  

  Seth Godin
  • True
  • Instead
  • Slogan

• I had this feeling everybody thought I was dead. I didn't quit. I did some films and theater in London. I went to New York. But I had been on television so much, people thought [if I wasn't on television] I wasn't around.

  

  Doug McClure
  • Feeling
  • Television
  • New York

• No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Together
  • Overcoming

• Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

  

  Simon Callow
  • Men
  • Jesus
  • Western

• I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Light

• Was a giant who changed the history of the world. I was in China during the old regime, when it was full of moneylenders and slavery. He changed all that.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • World
  • History
  • Change

• The U.S. prostitutes are fighting with everybody, shooting at everybody. It's like dating a gangbanger.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Fighting
  • Dating
  • Shooting

• There's no glory like those who save their country.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Country

• I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Films
  • Do
  • TV Show

• Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

  

  Aristotle
  • Know
  • Understand
  • Teach

• We are what we continually do.

  

  Aristotle
  • Do
  • Continually

• What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.

  

  Corinne Maier
  • Time
  • Do
  • Pointless

• It all went by so fast, didn't it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do.

  

  Michael Jackson
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