Jack McDevitt Quotes
The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
-
The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
-
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
-
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
-
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
-
I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
-
No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
-
We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
-
In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
-
The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
-
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
-
I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
-
At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
-
It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
-
He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
-
Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
-
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
-
One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
-
To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?
-
My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
-
I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.
-
The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.
