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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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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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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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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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's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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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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I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.
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I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
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He could probably make you a cloud sandwich if you asked. Or a blancmange made of numbers.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski -
I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for instance, I don't think I'm particularly a great singer, but I feel like I write songs that complement my voice, you know, and I feel like it's unique. And I don't feel like I'm particularly a great actor, for instance, but I feel like I approach each thing that I do with some level of sensitivity. And I would say that comedy in general is the most disarming.
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Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
