Neil MacGregor Quotes
There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
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I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
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I feel my knees changing - like, why do I have this pain when I'm running on the treadmill? What's going on with my lower back when I wake up in the morning? I just feel changes. And I'm definitely fearful in a very vain manner about my body ageing.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
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There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.
