Ian Mckellen Quotes
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
Macaulay Culkin -
My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
Viktor Orban -
I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
Hans Vestberg -
I've always wanted to do a period piece.
Kate Mara -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
Pamela Adlon
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
Kate Williams -
Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
Orhan Pamuk -
The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
Larry Hagman -
I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
Sam Brownback -
I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
Zaha Hadid
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
Cameron Diaz -
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Walker Percy -
No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
T. E. Hulme -
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Van Morrison -
I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
Manfred von Richthofen -
Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
Bea Arthur -
The nice thing about movies is that you can sort of steer your audience toward seeing that there's discomfort, but there's also this sense of, 'Well, we'll tolerate this weirdness because maybe it'll be interesting.'
Karyn Kusama -
A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.
Gary Zukav -
I'm not an intimate person, really.
Maria Cornejo -
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
Ian Mckellen