Donald McCaig Quotes

The majority of border collie owners and breeders don't want to have anything to do with the show ring.

Donald McCaig

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• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

  Sallust
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fall

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • City
  • Creativity

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Small
  • Leadership
  • Bold

• What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Human
  • Problems
  • Everyone

• Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Think
  • Hurt
  • Humor

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Feel
  • More
  • Jewish

• To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Long
  • Done
  • Waiting

• We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Fate
  • Become
  • Prophets

• A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Responsibility

• When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Real
  • Nice

• Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.

  

  Randy Pausch

• Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Life

• Being silent is something one completely unlearns if, like him, one has been for so long a solitary mole - - -

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Long

• I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Queens
  • Crowns

• I think TV is a fantastic medium right now because of what you can do visually. It's phenomenal, and it's just getting better and better, but in a way, there's no beating the personal image you can create in your head, with those personal aspects, which you can only get from reading or radio dramas.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Reading

• Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

  

  Daniel Inouye
  • May
  • Future
  • Risk

• Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

  

  Martin Rees

• The majority of border collie owners and breeders don't want to have anything to do with the show ring.

  

  Donald McCaig