David Macaulay Quotes
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.
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When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
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I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.
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But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
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The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.
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Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.
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I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.
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Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.
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If I had my way, I'd love to see 'Wolverine' in a cosmic adventure all by his lonesome.
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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
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I've never thought about the ages of my readers.