Michael Jackson Quotes

I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour...

Michael Jackson

• Dancing The Dream

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• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
  • You
  • Like

• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movies
  • Discover
  • Observer

• There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Fear
  • Quality
  • Better

• The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• We grow small trying to be great.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Small

• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• I don't read the critics.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Read
  • Critics

• My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Normal
  • Eighteen

• Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Art
  • Death
  • Rest

• It's pleasing to realize that quite a few people enjoy this sort of playfulness and that they are not afraid to look at the relative nature of rock-hard reality.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • People
  • Nature
  • Reality

• It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Freedom
  • Giving
  • Responsibility

• If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Lion

• We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Education
  • Church

• The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.

  

  James Cronin
  • Long

• Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

  

  Will Smith

• They talk most who have the least to say.

  

  Matthew Prior

• I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That's always fun.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • World
  • Fun
  • Waves

• Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.

  

  Doris Eaton Travis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • World

• There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Work
  • Great
  • Music

• When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Experience

• Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

  

  Elin Hilderbrand
  • Done
  • Things
  • Regret

• The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Sorrow
  • Grows
  • Denied

• I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour...

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dancing The Dream