Ian Mckellen Quotes

It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?

Ian Mckellen

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• I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Today
  • Party
  • Problems

• I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Age
  • Think
  • Reading

• When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Age
  • Lost

• If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • High
  • Want
  • Problems

• My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Writing
  • Character
  • American

• It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Problems
  • Because
  • Grow

• The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Change
  • Vision
  • Problems

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
  • Young
  • Falling

• Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trying
  • Democracy
  • Problems

• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Important
  • Age
  • Society

• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Abuse

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Problems
  • Immigration
  • Now

• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Age
  • Justice

• Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Problems
  • Facts
  • Solution

• Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

  

  Hannah More
  • Help
  • Goals
  • Problems

• At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

  

  Mariam Naficy
  • Work
  • Real
  • Experience

• It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well.

  

  Anwar Robinson
  • She
  • Age

• The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • Future

• Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Hand

• The new owner will be involved at every stage. Of course, if changes are made at the new owner's request and they add to the costs, it would be the new owner's responsibility.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Responsibility
  • Stage
  • Changes

• It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Problems
  • Old Age