David McCallum Quotes
But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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I work hard at what I do, and it does take time and a lot of commitment, so for me, it is proving to other people that I'm not just another dummy.
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don't look back on the good old days.
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I wouldn't say I'm a hostile person.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
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I still believe on some level that at the end, somebody will say, 'You get an A-minus for your life.' And it's not true. It's not true.
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Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.
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But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.
