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.
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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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Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.
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When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
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Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the one where ordinary humans 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.
