Ewan McGregor Quotes
The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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We've always believed in our music.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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Always follow your own path.
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My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
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There was something so cool about being able to carry this film Into the Forest together with Ellen Page and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.
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The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
