Ian Mcewan Quotes
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Making music is fantastic.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.
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I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
