Ian Mckellen Quotes
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
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I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
