Michael Jackson

Our list of Michael Jackson Quotes

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
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The Michael Jackson's quote says that although being a liar allows us to get ahead, being truthful takes us much farther in life.

Lying is an action we often do, even unconsciously, and can bring positive short-term results. But, once someone notices that we have lied about an issue, it diminishes the trust someone may have placed in us.

Instead, being truthful allows us to always be transparent with the people we discuss and avoid mistrust problems. But being transparent reveals our vulnerabilities to other people. And they often exploit these weaknesses to take advantage of us.

We need to strike a balance between lying and telling the truth. Sometimes we need to maintain a threshold of secrecy and unreality not to show our weaknesses. In contrast, sometimes, we need to be truthful to strengthen a relationship with a trusted person.

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

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I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I just wish I could understand my father.

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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?

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Me and Janet really are two different people.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

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We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

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When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true.

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To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

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People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

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All of us are products of our childhood.

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Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

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In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

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To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

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Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice, you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.

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A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

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When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.

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When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.

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I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.

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But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

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And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

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

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I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.

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Look beyond yourself.

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They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

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Before you judge me, try hard to love me, look within your heart. Then ask, have you seen my childhood?

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