John D. MacDonald Quotes
I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.
Quotes to Explore
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New York earlier in my career.
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It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
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I think we're in a very low point of music right now.
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Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes - eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them. In turning them all into heroes, we have lost a sense of the individuality they also fight to preserve.
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I pray that we will treat each and every one of our Heavenly Father's children lovingly, tenderly, and individually, as He would have us treat them. I also pray that we will always be mindful of the power each one of us has to make a difference and to influence the world in which we live.
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I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.
