I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.
Sean ConneryRead
Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.
Interpretation
Scotland deserves equal recognition and status amongst all nations.
This quote by Sean Connery emphasizes the desire for Scotland to be acknowledged as an equal player on the global stage. It reflects a deep sense of national pride and advocates for equality, suggesting that every nation, including Scotland, should have the same opportunities and respect as others.
In practice
During a speech about national identity and rights.
I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.
But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.
A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?
Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.
I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.
My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.
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