Ian Mckellen Quotes
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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There are no rules in life. Whether it is written down, or spoken by shamans, nothing binds a man beyond himself. Nothing, save the chains he accepts for himself. Laws and traditions mean nothing, if you have the strength.
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Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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There is tolerance within our community, Muslims and Christians living together in harmony. These traditional values we have should be enhanced.
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
