M. Jackson Quotes

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

O month when they who love must love and wed.

I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.

The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

Acting is making it seem like it's happening now.

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

The way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can.

I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.

I love going out and doing new things.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.

You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.

People know if you've got the goods, if you're easy to work with, and if you can get the job done.

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

The public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.

Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are.

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.