David Macaulay Quotes
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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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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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
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My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.
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Tenderness and rot tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.
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I've never thought about the ages of my readers.
