Ian Mckellen Quotes
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
