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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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!
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God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
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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.
