David Macaulay Quotes
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
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Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
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Why should he remember her? Why should she remember him? She had other things to think about. She was a grown woman. She had to face life. Even if all life had to show her was a locked door, and behind the locked door, no room.
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A thrint was master over every intelligent beast. This was the Powergiver’s primal decree, made before he made the stars. So said all of the twelve thrintun religions, though they fought insanely over other matters.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.
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Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.
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When I was young, I remember the first song I danced to was 'Akhiyan Milaon,' because I am a big fan of Madhuri Dixit.
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I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.
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I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one genre or another.
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I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
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I'm a big fan of the digestive system.
