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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is something joyous about not talking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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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.
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Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
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A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to model when I was younger.
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My heart knows me better than I know myself, so I'm gonna let it do all the talking.
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Growing up, it was very clear that I was a member of a royal family with a potential function later on. The question was: when and how and if?
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Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.
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I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.
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The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.
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My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.
