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Neil MacGregor Quotes

I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.

Neil MacGregor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 16, 1946

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People Society Feel Find Understand

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

Jimmy Carl Black

Never Out Anything Mothers Broke

I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.

John Burroughs

Life Live I Am Efficiency 100 Years

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

Joel Osteen

Morning Community Day Church You Go

From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better running a restaurant than I was a geologist.

John Hickenlooper

Day Restaurant Better First Denver

At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That's the whole idea of effective weight loss - it's permanent because it's part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own - you own it.

Jean Nidetch

Age Yourself Think Pride Fat Loss

The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and our places. So there's room for a movie for her, but I don't think it will hew to the book.

Stacy Schiff

History Book Think Interesting She

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

Rush Limbaugh

People You First Amendment Listen

There's a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it's gonna cost 'em, and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they're undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable.

Rush Limbaugh

People Foundation Process Find Go

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

Mike Figgis

Music Treat Musicians Way Singer

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

Michael Owen

Time Moment I Am Feel Ball Going

I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out - I will gallop.

Miranda Hart

Dance People Better Moments Want

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.

Mo Rocca

People Comedy Never Interview Out