Michael Jackson Quotes

I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

Michael Jackson

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• Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Age

• When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
  • Best

• I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Money
  • Space
  • Car

• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bored
  • Take
  • Seriously

• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • China
  • Global

• I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Death
  • Come
  • Grandfather

• The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Place
  • California
  • Alive

• I have popular support.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Support
  • Popular

• I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

  

  Christopher Eccleston

• Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Money
  • Love
  • For Her

• Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Rain
  • Ego
  • Grace

• Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Book

• Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.

  

  Kanye West
  • Mind
  • Real

• Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

  

  Umar
  • Wisdom
  • Language
  • Inspiring

• Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Evolution

• Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Focus
  • Goal
  • Taught

• Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.

  

  Kim Tae-hyung BTS
  • Hurt
  • Forget
  • Taught

• I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Taught
  • Biblical