Michael Jackson Quotations

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

I just wish I could understand my father.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Years ago, I settled with certain individuals because I was concerned about my family and the media scrutiny that would have ensued if I fought the matter in court,

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

Many organizations were initially scared of the Internet and email. Now there's hardly a workplace on the planet that doesn't have an Internet connection.

she prefers them to be with me than with her.

No action or investigation has been taken to determine who is leaking this information or why they are permitted to violate the law in such a manner. I respectfully request that people see these efforts for what they are.

I have always maintained my innocence, and vehemently denied that these events ever took place. I reluctantly chose to settle the false claims only to end the terrible publicity and to continue with my life and career,

I found myself taking a five-hour bus ride to sample the local beers in Whitefish, Montana,

We're in the planning. Classes will start late this year or early next year. We want to train people with viable marketing skills and rudiments in entrepreneurial skills. You learn and apply it however you best need it.

Ground water has always been the property of the landowner, with the idea that water can be used for the benefit of the land.

It is almost a routine thing that they come from time to time to visit their regiments. So we are kind of working on those in the longer term.

I respect the obligation of confidentiality imposed on all of the parties to the 1993 proceedings,

Our coaching staff has worked very hard, and so have our players. They dedicated themselves to getting better, and once they developed confidence in themselves and started believing they could win everything just came together.

Please, no! You have to give us some privacy. Please, you have to understand his position, he is with his kids... you need to leave us alone.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

to return to Santa Barbara to immediately confront and prove these charges unfounded.

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

This is an enormously exciting opportunity to grow content businesses that combine the unique capabilities of the internet with the art and science of traditional programming.

The Yugoslav delegation presented a proposal that would not guarantee the safe return of all the (ethnic Albanian) refugees (and) the full withdrawal of Yugoslav forces,

All of Hollywood has plastic surgery. I don't know why they point me out. The press exaggerated it. It's just my nose, you know. They want it to be everything. Just the nose isn't enough.

I trusted Martin Bashir to come into my life and that of my family because I wanted the truth to be told,

It pains me to watch the human suffering taking place in the gulf region of my country. I will be reaching out to others within the music industry to join me in helping to bring relief and hope to these resilient people who have lost everything.

I wake up from dreams and go "Wow, put this down on paper." The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face . . .

I wake up from dreams and go ""Wow, put this down on paper."" The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face . . .

I look at this as a staff award. It's a good indicator that our staff is doing some of the right things and our kids are responding well to what we have asked them to do.

Clearly, it was an incumbent-protection act, ... Redistricting was indeed a pretty ugly power play.

How the mighty fall. It really is the final straw for this guy. Just when you think things can't get any worse, he holds his baby out of a window. It's actually quite unbelievable. I suppose he'll blame Sony for that, as well.

I clear $180 a month. It's the highest-paying job in the compound.

People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."

Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.

The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world.

If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.

I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.

I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.

When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.

My singing... I'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly.

I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.

A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.

I just don't like being on a lot of different things or being everywhere because I get kind of embarrassed.

I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don't understand is just singing about sex and "I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over" and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo.

One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do.

Please, I don't want anybody to think I'm starving, I'm not. My health is perfect, actually.

Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer.

I'm a lover not a fighter.

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoratative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs...

Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.

Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.