David Mackay Quotes
I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.
Quotes to Explore
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.
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The most terrible things end, at last.
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When I happen to be satisfied with everything, even God and myself, I immediately react like the man who, on a brilliant day, torments himself because the sun is bound to explode in a few billion years.
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Wisdom comes with winters.
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I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.
