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 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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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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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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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
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Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.
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I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle- it's just self-interest.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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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.
