John D. MacDonald Quotes

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

John D. MacDonald

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• You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

  

  Garth Ennis
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• I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
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• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
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• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.

  

  Ilan Stavans
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• Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Everyone
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• When I have a bad show, I can't wait until I can get back on stage to forget about it.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Bad
  • Forget
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• My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a 'Man of the Year' award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO.

  

  Jack Keane
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• It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
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  • Grow

• The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

  

  Nathaniel Branden

• There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

  

  Garrison Keillor

• You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

  

  Desmond Tutu

• People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

  

  Jim Talent
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• What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.

  

  Kate Gleason
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  • Steers

• It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
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• From heart to heart a heartbeat staggers, looking for a haven. Bereft. It is easier to enter heaven than to pass through each others' eyes.

  

  Bill Knott
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.

  

  Richard Feynman
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• Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.

  

  Todd Burpo
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• The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

  

  John D. MacDonald