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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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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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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Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
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I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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Meaningful learning in a community requires both participation and reification to be present and in interplay. Sharing artifacts without engaging in discussions and activities around them impairs the ability to negotiate the meaning of what is being shared. Interacting without producing artifacts makes learning depend on individual interpretation and memory and can limit its depth, extent, and impact. Both participation and reification are necessary. Sometimes one process may dominate the other, or the two processes may not be well integrated. The challenge of this polarity is for communities to successfully cycle between the two.
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I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.
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If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.
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A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.
