Jack McDevitt Quotes
Never confuse perfection with production. People who don’t make mistakes aren’t doing anything.Jack McDevitt
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
Jaclyn Smith -
Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
Carl Forti -
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.
Edmund Phelps -
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
Walter Gropius -
I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
Manti Te'o
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
Laura Linney -
I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
O. J. Simpson -
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter Lippmann -
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Lady Gregory -
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
Adam Clarke -
What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
Kapil Sibal
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
Zach Galifianakis -
I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
Ted Yoho -
Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
Daisy Ridley -
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
Fay Vincent
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I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal.
Barack Obama -
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh -
My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.
Dominique Moceanu -
The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
Eric Bana -
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
Yoko Ono -
Never confuse perfection with production. People who don’t make mistakes aren’t doing anything.
Jack McDevitt