Ian Mckellen Quotes
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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My first car was a motorcycle.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
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I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.
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I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
