Neil MacGregor Quotes
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period.

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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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We can have all of the best ideas in the world, but if we do not have a system to get our tasks completed, we will fail.
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I will teach people not only how to identify their goals and dreams, but subsequently give them the tools to make those dreams a reality.
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To be honest, many of my well-wishers want me to play the solo lead in films. Maybe, it's time to think about it. In fact, I have cut down on signing up multi-starrer films.
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When I get out of work early, or if I have some time before I go into the studio, I go to Disneyland for a few hours with my siblings. We just have fun, go on all the rides together, and eat all of the good food.
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The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period.