Donald McCaig Quotes
I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.
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I have crushes on women all the time.
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
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It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..
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I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.
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Accident, he wondered, or a way of hiding? Trapped or planned? He had no way of knowing and further speculation was ridiculous, based as it necessarily must be upon earlier assumptions that were entirely without support.
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As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
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Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
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When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.
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I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.
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Once you've got through immigration, one is always made to feel very welcome in America, once they've let you in. It's a great place to be.
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Your spirit is to be connected with your attention. Your spirit which is in your heart has to come in your attention. So who does the connection is this power which we call in Sanskrit language as Kundalini.
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Credit is an 'I love debt' score.
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'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
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I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.
