David Macaulay Quotes
I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
Quotes to Explore
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I know what poverty is.
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Because the managerial élites are now so large and have such a dominant effect on our educational system, we are actually teaching most people to manage, not to think. Not only do we not reward thought, we punish it as unprofessional.
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My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.
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All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
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I like the idea of going to see the ice caps and the polar bears, because who knows how long they are going to be around for?
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I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
