Ian Mckellen Quotes
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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I'm a social person, and I'm used to working as a band member. I like that. I like being a part of a family onstage and on the road.
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It's hard because you can't legislate creative diversity. I think it's more that the gaming community's more diverse, and they're going to ask for more diverse experiences. They're going to demand them.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
