Neil MacGregor Quotes
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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I've always had a great feel for space and how objects occupy it.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
