Nick McDonell (Robert Nicholas "Nick" McDonell) Quotes
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I knew I was going to be somebody.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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I love going to second-hand stores.
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I never dread going back to Congress.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
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The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.
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If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
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I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.
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Everyone is going to die.
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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
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I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
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Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
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If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
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One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists mainly through academic channels. Students are exposed to her novels, and some read her, then, on their own, but some also go to grad school: teach her, write about her, keep her going.
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He hasn't thrown me a pick yet, but hopefully I can get one because I know he loves to give them out. When you watch any other game they play it seems like he's just throwing them up there for grabs. Hopefully, he'll do that this week.
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If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.
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Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence—a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.
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I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.
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A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.
