David Mackay Quotes
Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.
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Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
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I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.
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I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
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Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.
