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.
Xosha Roquemore -
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.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
Karan Mahajan -
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.
Vijay Singh -
I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
Karl Rove -
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.
S. Jay Olshansky
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Carla Bruni -
Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
Aaron Peirsol -
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.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
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.
Larry Niven -
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Aneurin Bevan
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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.
Linda Vester -
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
Andre Breton -
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.
Franklin Foer -
When I was young, I remember the first song I danced to was 'Akhiyan Milaon,' because I am a big fan of Madhuri Dixit.
Kriti Sanon -
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
Duane Michals
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I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.
Christine Flores -
I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.
Charles Bass -
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I'm a big fan of the digestive system.
David Macaulay