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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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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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
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I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
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The modern cineplexes are mundane, dull boxes. But 'The Majestic' pays tribute to the movie palaces that made people feel like royalty. It honors a time when pictures helped Americans get through grim periods like the blacklist and the war.
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I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.
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I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
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'8 Mile' is so revered, it's like, everywhere I go, somebody's talking about it.
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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.
