James McAvoy Quotes
Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But they have the right to try and do whatever they want to do. That's their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do.
Quotes to Explore
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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I always take things step by step and match by match.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
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I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.
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I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
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I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
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Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But they have the right to try and do whatever they want to do. That's their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do.
