David J. C. MacKay Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.
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They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
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My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
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These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.
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Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
