Harold MacMillan Quotes

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

Harold MacMillan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatFindComfortAlwaysPress

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

Jimmy Nail

TimeUnknownBecomeCelebrityNever

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

Tommy Chong

FunnyMeComedyBackGotThing

Dance is in my background.

Rutina Wesley

DanceBackground

I've worked all my life not to be a simpleton.

Roisin Murphy

LifeMy LifeAll My LifeWorked

I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.

Mary Pope Osborne

MoviesCowboyWanted

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

Miriam Margolyes

LifePassionReadingLiteratureDays

I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.

Dick Costolo

TimePerspectivePeopleViewYou

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Clara Bow

LifeTrustMeNowKidThings

That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.

Brian O'Driscoll

WorldYouContractsSuperiorGet

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.

Prince

SupportTryingOwnThingsArtists

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

Peter Ustinov

MistakesThoughtIntelligentWorst

Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but also from Coke to jeans. It is entirely possible for people around the world to love American products, American books, American movies, American music, and dislike the policies of the government of America.

Shashi Tharoor

LoveMusicGovernmentPeopleWorld

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