David Macaulay Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
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A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
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Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
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There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
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I've never thought about the ages of my readers.
