Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• Presidents aren`t supposed to spit, at least not obviously.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • President
  • Spit

• To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging mind and that which heals you and lifts you up when you succumb to it and attract whatever personal disaster you attract.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Important
  • Mind

• Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Power
  • Today
  • State

• 'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Men
  • Die
  • Diseases

• I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Looks
  • Fool

• I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Work

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

  

  Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Littles
  • Tolerance
  • Propaganda