Neil MacGregor Quotes
The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.
Quotes to Explore
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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Excellence always sells.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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I'd rather win than be a showman.
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
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Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
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The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.
