Jack McDevitt Quotes
The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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Hail hero, hail hero, child of your fate Come into the kitchen don't stand by the gate And show us your wisdom before it's too late
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The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
