Ian Mckellen Quotes
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
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In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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I like sleeping a lot.
