Ken MacLeod Quotes
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.Ken MacLeod
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
Abhishek Bachchan -
I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
Xavi -
It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
Pat Benatar -
I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn -
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
Hans Hofmann
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Be who you are and be that well.
Saint Francis de Sales -
I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
Vance Joy -
If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
Raghuram Rajan -
No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
Dana Boente -
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
Beck -
So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
Vanessa Brown
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
Sally Schneider -
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
Kara Swisher -
If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
Gary Busey -
'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
Mal Peet -
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
Andy Warhol -
There's a lot you can do without words.
Craig McCracken -
It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.'
Denis Leary -
My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'
Nora Lum -
The most unfair things that could have happened in a society fell upon a blind man. This is something that no one can accept or explain away with any excuse. Everyone will ask: 'Do we actually have to exist in a society like this?'
Ai Weiwei -
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
Ken MacLeod