David McCallum Quotes
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
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Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.
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Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.
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Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.
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You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.
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I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.
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I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.
