Ken MacLeod Quotes

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

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• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Position
  • Redesign

• Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Question
  • Personality
  • Leadership

• I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Director

• I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • People
  • Want
  • Carry

• Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Control

• I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Hair
  • Choice
  • Days

• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Wife
  • Road
  • Stupid

• This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • God
  • Idea
  • Compassion

• I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Day
  • Play
  • Games

• Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Pressure

• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Women
  • Help

• No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • Path
  • Environmental

• Ever since we published the first Apple report, we've had some other brands turning more proactive.

  

  Ma Jun
  • First
  • Apple
  • Proactive

• I'm a perfectionist.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Perfectionist

• When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Stupid

• Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Trying
  • Concentration
  • Soundtrack

• Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.

  

  George Will
  • Believe
  • Taxes
  • Democrat

• Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

  

  Thomas Malory
  • Long
  • Wit

• A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.

  

  Nicholas Fairbairn
  • Moment
  • Wine
  • Minister

• Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

  

  Ken MacLeod