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.
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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.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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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.
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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.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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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.
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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.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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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.
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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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.
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
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Things are changing. But nothing changes. And still, there will be changes soon.
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Friends and I used to play an invented parlor game called the Worst Records Never Made. The point was to hypothesize the most stunningly inappropriate albums we could imagine—pairings of artists and material so horrific that even the famously dunderheaded major labels would hardly consider making them. Most of our inspirations have been lost to memory, but the notion of discs like “Yodel with the Berlin Philharmonic,” “The Three Tenors Sing Gilbert and Sullivan,” and—my favorite—“The Chipmunks Present Your Favorite Spirituals” can still inspire what P. G. Wodehouse used to call “the raised eyebrow.
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Death mattered not - It was a mere puncutation.
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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.
