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.

  

  Felicia Day
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• You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

  

  Quentin Blake
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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.

  

  Fleur East
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• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

  Irwin Winkler
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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.

  

  Vic Snyder
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• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
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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.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Love
  • Justice
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• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Room
  • Odd
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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.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Done
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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
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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.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
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• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
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  • Up
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• You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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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.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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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.

  

  Dane Cook
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• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• The sphinx will always have to be looked after.

  

  Zahi Hawass
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• Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.

  

  Arthur Eddington
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• When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

  

  Joshua Bell
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  • VIolin

• The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Purpose
  • Virtue

• 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.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Society
  • Free
  • Purpose