Ian Mckellen Quotes
I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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Diversity is not just the right thing to do but right for business.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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We decided that sports, lifestyle and fashion were three elements that could be mixed together to a very unique formula. That's what we did: make Puma a very sports-fashion brand when, at the times, everybody talked about sports and sports performance and functionality. We said, 'Well, it's about more.'
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Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
