Harold MacMillan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
-
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
-
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
-
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
-
'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
-
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
-
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
-
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
-
I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
-
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
-
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
-
When you talking boxing, you talking me.
-
I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
-
Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
-
The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
-
The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
-
I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
-
I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
-
I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
-
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
-
The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
-
I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.
-
I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard.
-
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
