Bryant H. McGill Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Cancer cells have a lot of other things that are really wrong with them, and we should never forget that these are cells that have become deaf to all the signals that the body sends out, such as you can multiply a certain amount, you can be in a certain place in the body, where to stay, where to move, and so on.
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There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
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I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.
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Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination
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Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
