Ewan McGregor Quotes
I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
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You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.
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There is a continent - Africa - being consumed by flames. I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not to - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.
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I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.
