"I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence."

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Source : "Return of the Jedi: Ewan McGregor" by Devin Gordon, www.gq.com. January 3, 2012.

Ewan McGregor

#Ideas Quotes #Existence Quotes #Solitary Quotes

“The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.”

Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.
“Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.”

Source : "Weather" by Eddie Mair, www.bbc.co.uk. September 22, 2006.
“Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.”
“Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.”
“I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.”

Source : Edmund Gosse (2012). “Father and Son”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.”

Source : "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.
“I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.”
“I wasn't able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my level in about 30 days from above 300 to below 200.”

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