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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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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I came to this so late in life. I said I’ll either make it or I won’t make it and I can’t be worried about what those people think. So the people listening who, in their droves in tweets and texts tell me I’m an eejit, I’m fine with it.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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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.
