Jack McDevitt Quotes
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson -
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
Tavis Smiley -
I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
Mads Mikkelsen -
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
Karen Armstrong
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In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
Natasha Leggero -
There will be times when we do not agree on every decision or subject, but we should always believe in one another, support one another, and move forward through life together - connected.
Victoria Osteen -
I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
Walter Salles -
'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I had such a laugh, every single day. I look like such a feral child in it.
Olivia Cooke -
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
Karl Marx -
What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
Adam Green
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I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.
Parker Posey -
My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.
J. G. Ballard -
I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
Vanessa Carlton -
'Why don't we just leave this room today forgetting the word 'earmark'?'-June 2007
Nancy Pelosi -
Silence gives consent.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Football is the No. 1 sport in America.
Michael Ovitz -
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
Gary D. Schmidt -
People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
Irvine Welsh -
Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.
Augustus Toplady -
My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
B. B. King -
New worlds are always hard on old ideas.
Jack McDevitt