David McCallum Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
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What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.
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People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.
