Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Worry
  • Walking

• At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

  

  Ben Okri
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Road

• 'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.

  

  Pete Laney
  • Good

• The only thing that changes in my novels are the locations.

  

  Geoff Dyer

• I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting – to non-objective creation.

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Painting

• There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Great
  • Balance
  • Human Rights

• I wish I could have come here this afternoon and say we have all the money. I wish I could have come here today and say that the team will be comfortable based on all the money we have received. But sadly enough I can't because we simply do not have the money we need.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Money
  • Team
  • Come

• You have to surpass the levels of success that you have already achieved, and that's the challenge. But, it's a welcome challenge. I appreciate it because it brings the best out of me.

  

  T.I.
  • Success
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Respect

• The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Hope
  • Father

• As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.

  

  Yael Dayan
  • Peace
  • Two
  • Love Is

• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Christianity
  • Sore

• I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Life
  • Money
  • City

• If you can get an IPO, don't buy it. Only buy IPOs you can't get.

  

  Vahan Janjigian
  • Money
  • Ifs
  • Get Money

• Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Important
  • Today
  • Black

• Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Men
  • Action
  • Violence

• Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

  

  Edwin Paxton Hood
  • World
  • Men
  • Littles

• Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

  

  Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Littles
  • Tolerance
  • Propaganda