Kevin Macdonald Quotes
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
Salman Rushdie -
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
Nancy Gibbs -
I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
Samantha Cameron -
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor -
There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
Magnus Scheving -
My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
Samantha Cameron
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
Natasha Bedingfield -
The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Nothing wrong with making money.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
Rachel Joyce -
Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
Barry Levinson -
A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
Wendell Berry
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I will declare when I am in the gravel, From the maintenance of gifts, From being numbered, from going to be a martyr In the reckoning of Saint Segerno. From a word when sin may be to me, Let there be no sigh from those that hear me.
Taliesin -
...The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit...
Alfred North Whitehead -
He never gave us a script and we never asked - we were safe in his hands.
Amitabh Bachchan -
Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.
Brian Wilson -
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
Laurence Housman -
My character is just an extension of me. The in-ring work, the things that will always be said about me: Big, overbearing, powerful, in-your-face, couldn't wrestle - I never needed to wrestle. Why did I need to learn how to wrestle? Did Hulk Hogan need to learn how to wrestle? Nope. Is Hulk Hogan a good athlete? Nope.
Bill Goldberg
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Normally, I like to eat at home. We don't go out much. The food at home is so good.
Martti Ahtisaari -
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.
Alton Brown -
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
Saint Augustine -
I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.
Kevin Macdonald