Kevin Macdonald Quotes
When I was growing up on Loch Lomondside, one of the first albums I ever bought was Marley's 'Uprising.' I guess that would have been 1980 - just before he died.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.
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Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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One factor that favors easier adjustment in EMEs is that U.S. monetary policy normalization has been and should continue to be gradual, as long as the U.S. economy evolves roughly as expected.
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When I was growing up on Loch Lomondside, one of the first albums I ever bought was Marley's 'Uprising.' I guess that would have been 1980 - just before he died.
