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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Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
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When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.
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My job is to put as many ideas out there as possible every day. Some of them will get traction, some won't - some of them shouldn't.
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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great.
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Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
