Ken MacLeod Quotes
'Anyway...I find what you write interesting.''That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.'Ken MacLeod
Quotes to Explore
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell -
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky -
If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
Ed Rendell -
What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker -
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
Idina Menzel -
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
Macaulay Culkin -
Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
Adam Petty
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
Cameron Winklevoss -
GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
Nas -
I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
Jack Ramsay -
It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
Wang Shi -
Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
Fat Joe -
Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
Gary Sherman
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The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.
Lysander Spooner -
I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.
Priyanka Chopra -
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx -
We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.
George Bernard Shaw -
Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.
Bridget Kelly -
'Anyway...I find what you write interesting.''That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.'
Ken MacLeod