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
  • Now
  • Talking
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thing
  • Excellence
  • Function

• They knew. I have clothes I want to wear.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Clothes
  • Knew
  • I Want

• Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Care
  • Liberty

• Each one prays to God according to his own light.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Light

• You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Writing
  • Fall
  • Passion

• Ten, I thought, he's definitely a ten

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Definitely

• 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