Jack McDevitt Quotes

How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

Jack McDevitt

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• I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Big

• I'm an entrepreneur.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Entrepreneur

• College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • You
  • College
  • Back

• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Father
  • Think
  • Son

• The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • Up
  • School
  • Alone

• I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Down

• My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Playing
  • Hide
  • Paranoia

• I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Actor
  • Dealing

• The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Power
  • Political
  • Control

• I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Time
  • She
  • Crazy

• The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • People
  • Innocent
  • Random

• He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • Kindness
  • Paradise

• I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • You
  • Challenges
  • Accept

• Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • Country
  • You
  • City

• Love is just chemistry.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Chemistry

• We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Want
  • Old

• The most difficult thing to do is drama.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Drama
  • Difficult
  • Most

• As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• Find someone who you really believe in - that can be at a state level. The one thing I can encourage women to do the most is to start at the state level.

  

  Alyssa Mastromonaco
  • Women
  • Encourage
  • State Level

• If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

  

  Diogenes
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Red

• I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

  

  Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • Church
  • Heaven
  • Doors

• How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

  

  Jack McDevitt