Nick McDonell (Robert Nicholas "Nick" McDonell) Quotes

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

Nick McDonell

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• Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Fly
  • Possible
  • Robots

• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Victory

• I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Possible
  • Class
  • Top

• I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Celebrity
  • Possible
  • Far

• I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Personality
  • Look
  • Possible

• I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Win

• If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Knowledge
  • Fight
  • Possible

• I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • World
  • Possible

• The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Changing
  • Terrorism
  • Fault

• What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Science
  • Positive
  • Possible

• I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Way
  • Possible
  • Project

• I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • World
  • Mother
  • Possible

• It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Power
  • Society
  • Model

• It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Experience
  • Funny
  • Changing

• I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • May
  • Think
  • Possible

• I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Kind
  • Try
  • Possible

• The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Always
  • Possible
  • Greatest

• Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • Music
  • Possible

• Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. . . . I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

  

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • Language
  • Possible
  • Access

• Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Achievement
  • Computer
  • Conclusion

• Not everyone is as nice as us.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Nice

• You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Human Life
  • Manifestation
  • Satisfies

• I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

  

  Nick McDonell
  • Possible
  • Changing
  • Definition