David Mackay Quotes
I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.
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I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.
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That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.
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Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
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I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.
