Ewan McGregor Quotes

I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.

Ewan McGregor

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  Larry Wall
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• Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • World
  • Succeed
  • Youth

• On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • World
  • Children
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• I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • End
  • Daily
  • Disability

• The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Mind
  • Single
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• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Feel

• I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Time
  • Start

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • People
  • Know
  • Cool

• I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Think
  • Question

• What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Desire

• Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Problems

• Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Piano
  • Got

• An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Problem
  • Entrepreneur

• Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Chance
  • Same

• I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Food
  • Clothes

• I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, that's a lot of food. That's a waste. No more. So I'm, like, letting it go so I have more food. My budget's good for food now.

  

  Steven Adams
  • Food
  • Budget
  • Haircut

• Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

  

  James Buchan
  • Long
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  • Universe

• I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

  

  Antonia Fraser
  • People
  • War

• There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Music
  • Hell
  • Smooth

• I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Food
  • Chance
  • Worked