Ian McShane Quotes
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
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The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?
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At a time when the Nation was at its lowest point, this generation dropped their individual pursuits to form the most potent military and powerful civilian engine the world has ever known. American, fighting and working together, as well as with our allies around the world, overcame the tremendous dangers of that time. We freed the world from the shackle of totalitarianism and made freedom ring.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
