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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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
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Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.
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The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
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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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I don't think it's fair that we cannot guarantee every child in this country a great education and that, in New York City, in some cases, your child is at risk in some part because of the policies the union endorses.
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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.
