Michael Shannon Quotes

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

Michael Shannon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1974

Topics

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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Angela Davis

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I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union.

Michael Gove

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I know for a fact that if I could do only music, I'd be out of my mind, insane. I'd be stressed-out; there's so much work. I mean, you work constantly; there are no breaks, really. If you're not promoting a record, you're making one. If you're not making one, you're touring. If you're not touring, you're doing photo shoots and prep work.

Aly Michalka

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There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

Stephen Breyer

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I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with me.

Mika

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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Michel de Montaigne

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Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.

Juan Williams

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This is a game where if you don't have people who dislike you, then you don't know what it is to be liked. I've had a lot of dislike thrown at me in this game, but I've also had a lot of love.

Dominick Cruz

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I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

Diane Lane

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One of the first books that outlined spiritual mapping was 'Breaking Strongholds in Your City: How to Use Spiritual Mapping to Make your Prayers More Strategic, Effective and Targeted,' published in 1993.

Anthea Butler

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There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.

Anne Carson

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I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

Poppy Montgomery

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