David McCullough Quotes
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
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Really sad that Republicans would allow themselves to be used in a Clinton ad. Lindsey Graham, Romney, Flake, Sass. SUPREME COURT, REMEMBER!
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My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
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Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.
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The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
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In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
