Kevin Macdonald Quotes
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing.
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When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
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I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.
