Jack McDevitt Quotes
If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
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I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
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I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.
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If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.
