Nick McDonell (Robert Nicholas "Nick" McDonell) Quotes

I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.

Nick McDonell

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• You can't choose up sides on a round world.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • Choose

• I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Different
  • Career

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Remember
  • Point
  • Meals

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • She
  • Guy

• I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Jazz

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Company
  • Started
  • Then

• There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Earth

• Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Faith

• I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

  

  David Hunt
  • Long
  • Done

• It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • Fitness

• Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• I don't like to talk about my personal life.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Life

• And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Fighting
  • Democracy

• David Gregory is known by and respected by many for his years of service to the Tennessee Board of Regents and in many roles in state government.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Service

• There are so few times in life where you are passionate about anything. And I think that if you can find that, you should just hold on to it and protect it at all costs and just follow it, because it's so rare.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Life

• It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Question

• Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

  

  Elizabeth Arden

• I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough.... IF you understand God's grace

  

  Carl Lentz
  • God
  • Grace
  • Breakthrough

• Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.

  

  William E. Burrows
  • Believe
  • Psychology
  • Disaster

• I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.

  

  Nick McDonell
  • Helping
  • Integrity
  • Getting