Andy McDermott Quotes
Get your boys ready. However this turns out, there'll be trouble—and they'll need more than tear gas and pepperballs to deal with it.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised
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Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
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There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.
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The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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A lot of times, professional athletes say, 'I'm not a role model; I'm an athlete.' I don't mind being a role model because I know what I've done in order to make it to where I am right now. It's a lot of hard work; it's a tremendous amount of hard work. But in order to be make it to a certain level, everybody knows it's going to take time.
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I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.
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Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
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AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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Get your boys ready. However this turns out, there'll be trouble—and they'll need more than tear gas and pepperballs to deal with it.
