Ian McLeod Quotes

I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

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• I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Love
  • Man

• Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Everyone
  • Apple
  • Mobile

• This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Understanding
  • Living
  • Field

• Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Brain

• The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Person
  • Poor
  • Interests

• Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Career
  • Me
  • Path

• Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Slave
  • Stomach

• The one thing you can control is effort.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Control
  • Effort

• I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Focus
  • Rest

• In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Job

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • I Believe

• When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Family
  • Food
  • Control

• There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

  

  Vash Young
  • Thoughts
  • Jump
  • River

• Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures...indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.

  

  Dan Simmons

• Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard (p. 244).

  

  Benjamin Jowett
  • True
  • Feeling

• Les êtres humains avouent leurs pires faiblesses quand ils s'étonnent qu'un maître du monde ne soit pas sottement indolent, présomptueux, ou cruel.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Moon

• The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.

  

  Bob Richardson
  • People
  • Problem
  • Solve

• We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.

  

  Nguyen Minh Triet
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Taboos

• If a concept lacks an essence, nothing will ever be found that completely fits that concept. If you are lacking in the concept of human being, it will immediately expose that you are something individual, something that cannot be expressed by the term human being, thus, in every instance, an individual human being.

  

  Max Stirner

• I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

  

  Ian McLeod