David Mackay Quotes
When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
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'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
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When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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Everybody's a nun.
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I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.
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My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Damn, I can't wait until it get dark,
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When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
