Ian Mckellen Quotes
There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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This Party of ours has been on the defensive for too long. The time has come to counter-attack...The intellectual counter-attack is as important as the counter-attack in Parliament and in the constituencies. If we can win the battle of ideas, then the war will already be half-won.
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Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.
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I don't care about awards and all the attention being a 'celebrity' gets you. It's just part of the job.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
