Ewan McGregor Quotes
I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
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You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
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We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.
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I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.
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You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.
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For me, there's bands like Frightened Rabbit and The View, and they've all had that Scottish accent. It's just class to hear it.
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Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.
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I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.
