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

• 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

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.

  

  Christopher A. Sims
  • People

• I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Thinking
  • Dangerous

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

  

  Jack McDevitt