Neil MacGregor Quotes

Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to shape our communal remembering.

Neil MacGregor

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• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wish
  • Nothing
  • Remarkable

• My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mother
  • Everything

• We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • American
  • Leadership
  • Move

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Yourself

• I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Different
  • Character
  • Girl

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Revolutions

• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Kindness

• Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • May
  • Book

• Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Up
  • Small
  • Challenge

• I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.

  

  Pete Docter
  • Time
  • Why
  • Small

• Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Jesus

• God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

  

  William Blake
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Supposing

• Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to shape our communal remembering.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Jesus
  • Memories