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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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.
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I hold to fiction as a cure, or partial cure, or cause for hope, or essential distraction from the rain you wake up to, the doubts in your head, the daily desolation that you have not yet said what is most true, you have not yet crafted the story that reveals you. And therefore something waits. Therefore you must wake and you must write and you are not alone. Your fiction is with you.
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We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven’t devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
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I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.
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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.
