David J. C. MacKay Quotes
The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
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All writers have their own pet commandments.
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As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.
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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
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What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.
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The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.
