Ewan McGregor Quotes
There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
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I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.
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Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.
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There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
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It's how you live that really counts.
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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.
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History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.
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If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?
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In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.
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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I'm cruisin' along and I'll look at the clock and I haven't eaten lunch. And I'll run downstairs, and I'll start shovelin' stuff down the pie hole, and I'll think, 'That was no lunch at all.'
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We would like to see humanitarian aid arriving without difficulty from the European Union ... the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should be able to enter and play their role.
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Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.
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You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.
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I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality --> immortal mistakes.
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You don't even really get used to doing scenes where you have to kiss, or be particularly intimate, with another person who's not actually your lover in real life.
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With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.
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My business is to prevent the future.
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There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.
