Ewan MacColl Quotes

My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

Ewan MacColl

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Talking
  • Now
  • Numbers

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• There is something joyous about not talking.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Something
  • Talking
  • Joyous

• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talking
  • Three
  • Ring

• There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Feeling
  • Feel
  • Talking

• The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Enough
  • Talking

• One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Reality
  • Know
  • Talking

• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Management
  • Function

• I just want to keep doing what I feel.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Feel
  • Keep
  • I Want

• I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Sad

• It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • World
  • Way
  • Function

• I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Feels
  • Strange
  • Talking

• A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Great
  • Opinion

• Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Talking

• Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Wall
  • Social
  • Function

• I wanted to model when I was younger.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Model
  • Younger
  • I Want

• A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Movie
  • Function
  • Sets

• There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • World
  • Parent
  • Imagine

• Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • World
  • Women
  • Control

• My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!

  

  Morena Baccarin
  • Happy
  • Decided
  • Actresses

• What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Home
  • Night
  • Scotland

• How long did it take for a past to die?

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Long
  • Past

• My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

  

  Ewan MacColl
  • Talking
  • Function
  • I Want