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- All get finded in the hard way.
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MICHAEL POLLAN . “Love doesn’t please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.
KERRELYN SPARKS They that fight for freedom undertakeThe noblest cause mankind can have at stake.
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IAN JOHNSON Millennium Development Goals are about creating wealth. If we don't measure it right, we won't manag...
IAN JOHNSON We are quite open as far as what would satisfy teachers,
IAN JOHNSON We discussed the job action plan, ... That is going to be made public at some point down the road.
IAN JOHNSON I will be encouraging them to vote yes. It is important we have a strong strike vote.
IAN JOHNSON Sound management of ecosystems is key to a responsible path to growth.
IAN JOHNSON There is a shared sense of urgency about meeting the MDGs.
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IAN JOHNSON Just think of the catastrophic impact it's had in a country that's pretty well organized, pretty ric...
IAN JOHNSON Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON He that never thinks can never be wise.
JOHNSON The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
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JOHNSON To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
JOHNSON When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by othe...
JOHNSON When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complai...
JOHNSON Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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JOHNSON There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co...
JOHNSON If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
JOHNSON No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
JOHNSON Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but...
JOHNSON To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
JOHNSON Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
JOHNSON He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them...
JOHNSON Language is the dress of thought.
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JOHNSON A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember s...
IAN FRAZIER Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
IAN FLEMING There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
IAN MCSHANE Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
IAN DUNBAR Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
JANIS IAN I'm still swimming.
IAN THORPE For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have do...
IAN THORPE I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on sw...
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IAN SOMERHALDER I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
IAN SOMERHALDER You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act...
IAN SOMERHALDER The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide sprea...
IAN SOMERHALDER I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be...
IAN SOMERHALDER Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their commun...
IAN SOMERHALDER They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or...
IAN SOMERHALDER Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat ...
IAN SOMERHALDER I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolut...
IAN SOMERHALDER Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
IAN SOMERHALDER I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major pro...
IAN SOMERHALDER I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to sho...
IAN SOMERHALDER A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
IAN SOMERHALDER You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
IAN SOMERHALDER There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
IAN SOMERHALDER I always try to be reasonable and effective.
IAN SMITH Every human being makes mistakes.
IAN SMITH Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't wan...
IAN SMITH Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principle...
IAN SMITH Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
IAN SCHRAGER My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast,...
IAN SCHRAGER I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
IAN SCHRAGER The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents'...
IAN SCHRAGER I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed,...
IAN SCHRAGER Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
IAN SCHRAGER I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
IAN SCHRAGER Good design is good business.
IAN SCHRAGER People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's ...
IAN RUSH I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
IAN RUSH I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back...
IAN RUSH I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to...
IAN RUSH I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I...
IAN RUSH The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
IAN RUSH There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football clu...
IAN RUSH This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it&...
IAN RUSH I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
IAN RUSH You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.
IAN RUSH It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
IAN RUSH I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
IAN RUSH Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. ...
IAN RUSH Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
IAN RUSH I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia...
IAN RUSH I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
IAN RUSH In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and ot...
IAN RUSH You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.
IAN RUSH I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ...
IAN RANKIN A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up ...
IAN RANKIN Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
IAN RANKIN No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it'...
IAN RANKIN My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or s...
IAN RANKIN You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're ...
IAN RANKIN I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and...
IAN RANKIN I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. I...
IAN RANKIN The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon yo...
IAN RANKIN I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think...
IAN RANKIN I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, i...
IAN RANKIN At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ide...
IAN RANKIN I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in...
IAN RANKIN I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me...
IAN MILLAR It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the...
IAN MILLAR I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critic...
IAN MILLAR I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I...
IAN MILLAR When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and ye...
IAN MILLAR The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe th...
IAN MILLAR Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and...
IAN MILLAR If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
IAN MILLAR I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent m...
IAN MCSHANE Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for...
IAN MCSHANE Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
IAN MCSHANE People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
IAN MCSHANE Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
IAN MCSHANE My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
IAN MCSHANE The bad boys get all the best lines.
IAN MCSHANE When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge y...
IAN MCSHANE Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
IAN MCSHANE I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
IAN MCSHANE Acting's boring.
IAN MCSHANE I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill g...
IAN MCSHANE I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
IAN MCSHANE My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for tw...
IAN MCSHANE Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
IAN MCSHANE If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footba...
IAN MCSHANE You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
IAN MCSHANE There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
IAN MCSHANE You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
IAN MCSHANE When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play...
IAN MCSHANE I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to ...
IAN MCSHANE What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
IAN MCSHANE My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football...
IAN MCSHANE It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
IAN MCLAGAN I only seem to date younger women.
IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park...
IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when ...
IAN MCLAGAN When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm...
IAN MCLAGAN Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha...
IAN MCLAGAN We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
IAN MCLAGAN I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and...
IAN MCLAGAN What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
IAN MCLAGAN You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know...
IAN MCLAGAN I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis...
IAN MCLAGAN Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth...
IAN MCKELLEN You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'...
IAN MCKELLEN What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you...
IAN MCKELLEN Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I...
IAN MCKELLEN I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separa...
IAN MCKELLEN I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of the...
IAN MCKELLEN If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Adm...
IAN MCKELLEN I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusi...
IAN MCKELLEN Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shou...
IAN MCKELLEN It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and re...
IAN MCKELLEN I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of puttin...
IAN MCKELLEN There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender ov...
IAN MCKELLEN You mustn't upstage the bride.
IAN MCKELLEN What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in oth...
IAN MCKELLEN So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for m...
IAN MCKELLEN I like sleeping a lot.
IAN MCKELLEN Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, some...
IAN MCKELLEN My friends are my family.
IAN MCKELLEN I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat ...
IAN MCKELLEN Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to li...
IAN MCKELLEN I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction....
IAN MCKELLEN I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a v...
IAN MCKEEVER I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
IAN MCKEEVER I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doin...
IAN MCKEEVER I don't hold grudges.
IAN MCEWAN The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel r...
IAN MCEWAN The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literatu...
IAN MCEWAN It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it&...
IAN MCEWAN I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them....
IAN MCEWAN Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and the...
IAN MCEWAN It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're...
IAN MCEWAN Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
IAN MCEWAN Not being boring is quite a challenge.
IAN MCEWAN One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
IAN MCEWAN I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...
IAN MCEWAN I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
IAN MCEWAN What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and...
IAN MCEWAN I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
IAN MCEWAN You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
IAN MCEWAN I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don...
IAN MCEWAN One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...
IAN MCEWAN True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
IAN MCEWAN But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the...
IAN MCDIARMID For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chan...
IAN MCDIARMID I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite g...
IAN MCDIARMID I'm the blackest villain of all time.
IAN MCDIARMID The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen pl...
IAN MCDIARMID If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, an...
IAN MCDIARMID That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
IAN MCDIARMID There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne...
IAN MCDIARMID To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back ...
IAN MCDIARMID When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to ...
IAN MCDIARMID And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me...
IAN MCDIARMID Consistency is very important when you're making films.
IAN MCDIARMID It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it...
IAN MCDIARMID Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and ...
IAN MACKAYE At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hug...
IAN MACKAYE I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
IAN MACKAYE Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about...
IAN MACKAYE Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea...
IAN MACKAYE I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly ...
IAN MACKAYE