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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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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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Most of the young people I know are working so hard, 60 or 70 hours a week. They have no time for recreation or love affairs; it's just work and struggle. I want them to endure, and find that strength and be able to continue.
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I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.
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Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' have gone a long way to popularise both pirates and outlaw behaviour, the truth of the matter is that piracy is illegal, and it kills.
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Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.
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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.
