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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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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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 found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.
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Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone owners, masters of America.
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The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain.
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The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.
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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.
