Jack McDevitt Quotes
One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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I'm a hugger of both men and women. As it turns out that those are taken in an offensive manner, I need to have a greater sense of awareness of what I am doing, and we will correct that, and I am taking those steps.
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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
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I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
