Ian Mckellen Quotes

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

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• Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Human
  • Liberty
  • Sense

• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Father
  • Girl

• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Country
  • High
  • Small

• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Country
  • Radio

• Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Start

• Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Know
  • Flying
  • Accomplishment

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Real
  • Change
  • Action

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but they're both amazing experiences; just, 'Lemonade Mouth' was a bit bigger. It was different for me.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Experiences

• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Good
  • Reason

• Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Hipster
  • Neither
  • Nor

• You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Garden

• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• When all are wrong, everyone is right.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Everyone

• For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Perspective

• Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear

  

  Casar Jacobson
  • Kind
  • Persons
  • Mountain

• Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Remember
  • Actors
  • Fact