Top 100 Quotes About Jackson
#1. When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.
Nelson Mandela
#2. What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson
that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul.
Elizabeth Taylor
#3. You're not showing Jackson the jock, you're showing Jackson your best friend, the guy that's in love with you, the one who wants to know all of you, everything that makes you who you are
Annie Brewer
#4. Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.
Merry Clayton
#5. What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.
Ne-Yo
#6. The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.
Molly Quinn
#7. I want to grow old with you," he whispers. "I want to let you win at bingo, I want you to help me find my dentures, and I want to spend the evening watching the sunset with you every night from our two rocking chairs."
-Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain
Ashley Jade
#8. I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.
Richard C. Armitage
#9. I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.
Evangeline Lilly
#10. Jackson is gone - not entirely gone; Jackson was there today watching, and Ewell sees his eyes - but you cannot blame him for not being Jackson. You must make do with the tools God has given for the job.
Michael Shaara
#11. Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked.
Auberon Waugh
#12. I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.
Ice-T
#13. As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
#14. My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!
Jackson Harris
#15. Braccas meas vescimini!
I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!'
-Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#16. Indiana was such a devout disciple of Shakti that she had once considered taking her name until her father, Blake Jackson, managed to convince her that a Hindu goddess's name was not appropriate for a tall, voluptuous blond American with the looks of an inflatable doll.
Isabel Allende
#17. I've always loved Don Cheadle and Jeffery Wright and even Sam Jackson.
Andre Royo
#18. I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.
Deke Richards
#19. THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.
Stephen King
#20. The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.
William Kircher
#21. I never got to meet Michael Jackson, and he's gone - so to be on stage with Prince was like if Michael ... you know what I'm saying? And Prince, he's just such a warmhearted guy. He's so humble. He's such a spiritual man. I like his style.
Sharon Jones
#22. I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors.
Deke Richards
#23. ...whatever it was, it wasn't going to make much difference in how I felt about Michael. We belonged to each other. Alex couldn't change that. Jackson couldn't change that.
S.J. Wright
#24. Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.
Warryn Campbell
#25. It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
Taryn Manning
#26. If Janet Jackson does the story of her life and I'm still young enough, I am there. No one can pull her off like I can. I have a dance background. I'm definitely not cutting an album anytime soon, but I can lip-synch all day. I can't sing, but I can act like it very well.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#27. I tend to stick to my team guys, the guys I train with here at Greg Jackson's, because when they're in there, I feel like I'm in there.
Diego Sanchez
#28. The judge gave Michael permission to issue a statement. I think Jackson went way outside the bounds of the judge's intent. It will be interesting to see what the judge does tomorrow in court.
Catherine Crier
#29. Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.
Ron Fournier
#30. Honestly, Jack, your handwriting is terrible."
Jackson held up both hands. "What can I say? I'm a doctor.
Vic James
#31. I got the best Mark-1 eyeballs in the fleet. Ain't no one can keep up with me! - Duv Jackson, Gunship
J.J. Snow
#32. I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
Jay-Z
#33. The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture.
Warryn Campbell
#34. It is not optimism, Daniel Jackson, merely the refusal to fail.
Sonny Whitelaw
#35. I hope my fans will grow with me. I want to be like Michael Jackson: 5-year-olds love his music, and 75-year-olds love his music.
Drake Bell
#36. The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.
Heather Morris
#37. As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.
Kim Kardashian
#38. If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.
JC Chasez
#39. A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.
St. Lucia
#40. As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.'
Richard C. Armitage
#41. Me, I'm late to meet my girlfriend. Annabeth is going to kill me.
Hope you enjoyed the stories. Stay safe out there, demigods.
Peace from Manhattan,
Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#42. A lot of people think that I'm a Michael Jackson impersonator.
Michael Jackson
#43. Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.
Eric West
#45. Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.
Quincy Jones
#46. Jackson's presence in New York had everything to do with the other Carrington sister.
He'd been keeping his distance. He'd had to. But today he didn't want to. He wanted to see her. Needed to see her.
He needed Mollie.
Lauren Layne
#47. But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
Will.i.am
#48. A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.
James Longstreet
#49. It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?
Martin Bashir
#50. Jackson plays a broken guitar because he's in love with it, and doesn't want to fix it, I think. It's so broken.
Nikki Reed
#51. With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.
Jordin Sparks
#52. Everybody knows about Peter Jackson, 'The Hobbit' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films being made in New Zealand, and to actually have been part of it for such a long period, to live there and to have friends that I will have for life because of that experience, is an amazing thing.
Luke Evans
#53. I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.
Jim Bakker
#54. Remember when the sound of little feet was the music We danced to week to week Brought back the love, we found trust Vowed we'd never give it up Remember when Alan Jackson, "Remember When
Denise Jackson
#56. I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games.
Phil Foglio
#58. I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.
Vonda Shepard
#59. I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.
Charles B. Rangel
#60. What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy ... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.
Wyclef Jean
#61. Michael Jackson changed the world and, more personally, my life forever,
Wade Robson
#62. Today, Jackson and Holly are in love. Tomorrow, she will lie dying in his arms. Yesterday, he must undo it all ...
Julie Cross
#63. Bessie?" I looked down at the bull serpent. "But ... he's too cute. He couldn't destroy the world."
-Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#64. Meet Logan Jackson, smug, self-entitled, proud, arrogant, trust-fund brat.
Ali Harper
#65. Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
Vanessa Mae
#66. Jackson busied himself with the volunteers as they passed out flyers about the new voter ID laws that would go into effect in 2016 and signed up people to drive voters to the polls. Many of the elderly people they spoke to that morning were angry.
Cheris Hodges
#67. You, sir, are a ray of sunshine.
-Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#69. I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.
Rick Riordan
#70. Michael Jackson is part of my heart. We would do anything for each other.
Elizabeth Taylor
#71. Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.
Nikki Reed
#72. I was too young to understand who Sam[uel L.] Jackson was or who Bruce Willis was, who Jeremy Irons was at the time. All I knew was that they were good to me then.
Aldis Hodge
#73. The deeper I go into mythology, the more I find. I originally did five 'Percy Jackson' books. I thought that would cover Greek mythology and I couldn't have been more wrong. It's ever-expanding.
Rick Riordan
#74. You are the breath I need to breathe. I live for you, Alexis. Without you, I am nothing." - Jackson Cole
Sarah Curtis
#75. A ghost of a smile flickered across her lips- Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#76. And it was the best underwater kiss of all time. Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#77. The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#79. I think that he [Michael Jackson] did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that was denied to himself. There's no question that the transcendent art that he created was a means, an instrument, a vehicle for others to experience what he didn't.
Michael Eric Dyson
#80. Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man
and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is 'bad.
Frank Zappa
#81. 'They Don't Care About Us' by Michael Jackson - This song makes me want to dance, and I fell in love with it watching 'This Is It' with my kids.
Summer Sanders
#82. Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
Ian McKellen
#83. Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him.
Christopher Myers
#84. When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
Luke Evans
#85. Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.
Ernest Cline
#86. My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
Dick Schaap
#87. Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and being a responsible husband. Jesse thought it was insulting, not only to him, but to his former mistress and their love child.
Jay Leno
#88. On Andrew Jackson: His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#89. The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis Presley.
Michael Eric Dyson
#90. Jackson?' 'Sir?' 'What's a pundit?' 'I think it's one of them Indian geezers, sir, as comes up and strangles you from behind.' 'Yes, that sounds very likely.
Desmond Cory
#91. Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God
Rick Riordan
#92. I read 'The Hobbit' while at school. It was OK; can't really remember too much from there, other than the fact I was 10! I never read it again until the script for the film, but it has to be an amazing story when you know Sir Peter Jackson has made three films out of it.
Mark Hadlow
#93. My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
Alan Huffman
#94. I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
Nancy Farmer
#95. JACKSON HAS NEVER stood apart from the rest of Mississippi the way Atlanta has stood apart from Georgia, say, or New Orleans from Louisiana.
Calvin Trillin
#96. He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.
Catfish Hunter
#97. We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear that the courts can't make a law. The Constitution is expressly clear that that's a power reserved to Congress.
Mike Huckabee
#98. People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about.
Jackie Jackson
#99. I guess it's a bit like not claiming your brother at school. This kind of disowning of the thing that you're most like. You want to be something cool, like Michael Jackson say, with a boom box over your shoulder and wearing leather. But you know deep down you're just a hayseed.
Ketch Secor
#100. Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.
Tito Jackson
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