David Mackay Quotes
I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
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In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion's share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
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The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.
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I produce a form, an impression of light, a beauty of tones.. .The etchings are now full of life, an ecstasy, a dance, a gentle motion and fluctuation in tones.
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I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.
