Ewan McGregor Quotes

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

Ewan McGregor

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
  • Target

• The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Gospel
  • Personally

• You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Great
  • Job
  • Law

• It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Television

• A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Success

• Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

  

  Charles Studd
  • Great
  • God
  • Real

• I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Long
  • City
  • April

• A strong story can move me to tears, and it doesn't matter whether it's a science-fiction or fantasy world. It's about what happens to a person, the choices they make. That's what's interesting.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • World
  • Science
  • Strong

• We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Experience
  • Respect
  • Stop

• I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think about it, of course, when I am writing.

  

  Per Petterson
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Tree

• The external world is changing drastically, and enterprises and products will have a short lifecycle if they don't change. So we have to react to market trends. Nothing lasts forever in today's world.

  

  Li Ning
  • World
  • Today
  • Forever

• For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • May

• When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.

  

  Charles Platt
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Space

• I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Small
  • Driving

• Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Power

• Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

  

  Elias Koteas
  • Age

• Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Bad
  • Financial
  • Only

• I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in all colleges now, and they’re makin’ a movie about him, and projectin’ him as the leader and if you read his book and see the movie that’s comin’ out, it’ll make you hate Elijah Mohammed and the Muslims. Mainly, this is done to turn the black people against the real leader and I’d like to say that this is the way white people rule.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Movie
  • Leader
  • Colleges

• Right now, I think I have time to be three things, in no particular order: a father, a husband, and a filmmaker. That's why I don't go out - I have no space for it. I feel like one of those main things would suffer.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Time
  • Why
  • Father

• I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Girls