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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I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.
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After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.
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I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.
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If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.
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There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.
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Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
