Neil MacGregor Quotes

The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but above all the Passion, where you can find images for every stage and every moment.

Neil MacGregor

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I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

Joe Manganiello

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Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.

Max McKeown

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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Max Planck

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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Max Frisch

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And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.

Robert Goulet

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Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.

Mattie Stepanek

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I will make the greatest efforts to seek mutually acceptable interaction between Taiwan and mainland China.

Tsai Ing-wen

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I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

Robert Atkins

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I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!

Rutina Wesley

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I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.

Bonnie Hunt

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I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

Bob Iger

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My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

Susana Martinez

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