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.

  

  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.

  

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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.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
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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.

  

  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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• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  

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

  

  Adam Brown
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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
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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
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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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• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

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

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.

  

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• I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

  

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• The world could burn around her, the cities turn to dust, the cries of a hundred thousand fill the air, and she would get up after the fire died and walk barefoot and burned over the charred soil in search of clean water, a weapon, a purpose. She would rebuild.

  

  Kameron Hurley
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• My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,Did all within this circle move!

  

  Edmund Waller
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• I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

  

  Kenny Wormald
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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.

  

  Neil MacGregor
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