Ian Mckellen Quotes

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• Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Together
  • Technology
  • Wealth

• My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Revolution
  • New
  • New York

• I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Breakfast
  • Apple
  • Pie

• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Smart
  • Win
  • President

• The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Long
  • War
  • Change

• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Always
  • Priority
  • Hockey

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Always

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Learning
  • Smart
  • Difference

• I want to be free... free to develop my art.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Art
  • Want
  • Free

• I get bored easily.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Bored
  • Get
  • Easily

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Present
  • Like

• The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Understand
  • Secret
  • Forgiving

• We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know.

  

  Keith B. Alexander
  • People
  • Great
  • Job

• Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Truth
  • Valuable

• If you pursue happiness you never find it.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • Happiness
  • Pursue
  • Inner Peace

• Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, 'Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people.'

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Responsibility

• I live for the text. It's my job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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