Ian Mckellen Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt -
I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
I don't really yell at people.
Nancy Reagan -
Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
Magic Johnson -
Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
Adam Brody -
Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
Tariq Ramadan
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
Earl Warren -
There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
Lady Gaga -
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
You can't hit what you can't see.
Walter Johnson -
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
Aaron Schock
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
Idina Menzel -
I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
Katey Sagal -
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
Wade Boggs -
I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.
Gary Lineker
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
Carlton Cuse -
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.
Kenneth Clark -
In 2010, you have roughly 38 billion dollars spent by government on cyber and telecoms security and another 60 billion or so by private corporations. So approximately 100 billion dollars spent on security, mostly on technological solutions, which the corporates are offering governments in particular; it's a very high growth area. So everyone is climbing over each other to get the contracts for government procurement on this. There is undoubtedly an element of this and that's what encourages, in part, the whole idea of locking down the Internet.
Misha Glenny -
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
Larry Kramer -
We triggered a discussion in society about the connection between church and state as well as our justice system. Putin is the leader, the icon and the guarantor of an authoritarian system that crushes Kremlin critics along with the help of the secret police and ever changing methods and laws.
Yekaterina Samutsevich -
Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
Ian Mckellen