David McCallum Quotes
I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I've never been a partier.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.
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Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.
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I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'
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When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.
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I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
