Ian Mckellen Quotes
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.
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I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
