Ian Anderson Quotes

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

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• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• 'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fashion

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Believe
  • Job
  • True

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Opinion
  • Drawing

• You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Know

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Fan
  • Supportive

• I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • School
  • Home
  • Workout

• Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Day

• I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • World
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Help
  • Alone

• Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Job
  • Experience

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Present
  • Moment

• If salvation could come by belonging to the covenantal community of the chosen people, or by keeping the Law of Moses, there would be no reason for God’s messiah to have suffered an excruciating death. Following the law thus must have no bearing on how a person stands in a right relationship with God.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Death
  • Relationship

• It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts

• When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • God
  • Way

• The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Character
  • Ideas

• I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Very