Harold MacMillan Quotes

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Harold MacMillan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 10, 1894 - December 29, 1986

Topics

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I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

Jim Fowler

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Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.

Joe Donnelly

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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

Jet Li

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I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.

Jeffrey Chiesa

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Presidents fall into second-term slumps for different reasons.

Michael Beschloss

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Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.

Stephen Sondheim

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I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

Rupert Evans

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I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

Lucas Papademos

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Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.

Donald Judd

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True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Bryant H. McGill

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Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Annie Lennox

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The thing that is most important is having people who are involved and engaged with the kids and also are not stressed and can be involved with them. And that's actually not boring and banal. That actually takes a lot of work to make that happen, and it's not something that our society does very well at all.

Alison Gopnik

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