Julian Baggini Quotes

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

Julian Baggini

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I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.

Mayer Hawthorne

PeopleMeAlwaysSureTourMade

I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

Meg Wolitzer

MusicYouthListeningThinkPowerful

When you become famous, people can have a powerful yet illusory idea of who you are. You want to live your life, but still, you don't want to let anyone down. I know Ed Vedder, Kurt Cobain, Jerry Cantrell, all those guys felt it. They're smart, real, and all of a sudden, they're put on a pedestal.

Ann Wilson

LifeLiveSmartPeopleYouPowerful

I was so grateful to win an Emmy, but just being nominated, it's not overrated!

Ann Dowd

GratefulWinBeingJustOverrated

Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.

Amy Poehler

GoodTimePeopleThinkDoingHands

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

Stephen Hawking

SkyWavesGravityMayWouldQuantum

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

Stella Adler

WorldStandYouImportantSayStage

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

Sun Myung Moon

KnowledgeMeMoonThoughtFamous

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

Shiri Appleby

CharacterResponsibilityViewYou

As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.

Johnny Flynn

WorkYouActorTakeGetMusician

A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.

Bradley Walsh

GoodBadWayRoundMakeComics

I like Barack Obama.

Bobby Seale

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