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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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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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.
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Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.
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I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.
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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.