Jack McDevitt Quotes
'I'm not optimistic,' he said. 'The issue clearly flies in the face of the First Amendment. People have a right to tell kids whatever they want about religion.''Do they have a right to push human sacrifice?''Of course not, Mac. But this isn’t human sacrifice. It’s just a church school.''I'm not sure the effect isn’t similar.'
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.
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When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
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That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
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Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.
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Learning is discovering that somethinkg is possible.
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'I'm not optimistic,' he said. 'The issue clearly flies in the face of the First Amendment. People have a right to tell kids whatever they want about religion.''Do they have a right to push human sacrifice?''Of course not, Mac. But this isn’t human sacrifice. It’s just a church school.''I'm not sure the effect isn’t similar.'
