Ian Mckellen Quotes

I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.

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• When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Love
  • Together

• The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Possibilities
  • Data

• When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Men
  • Community

• Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Sea
  • Generation
  • Leave

• There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Nothing
  • Vanity

• Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Everest
  • Forecast

• Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Like
  • Acting

• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Good
  • Control
  • Passion

• Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Strong
  • Famous
  • Healing

• There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

  

  Gary Locke
  • World
  • History
  • China

• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Always

• The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Why
  • Home
  • Game

• I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

  

  T-Pain
  • Person
  • Religion
  • Human

• Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Class
  • Birth
  • Determined

• We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Just
  • Consequences

• Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

  

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  • Nations
  • Prostitution
  • Baghdad

• One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Students
  • Dream-school

• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won. But that doesn't mean we can have a devil-may-care attitude toward this threat. We must do everything to stop these threats and not give the terrorists a single chance to demonstrate their brutality and hatred of mankind.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Giving
  • Mean
  • Gay

• I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Learned
  • Coming
  • Self-Esteem