John McDonald Quotes
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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For those whom God to ruin has design'd,He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
