Jack McDevitt Quotes
'One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.''Believers in what?''In everything.'
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
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Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.
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Put out great music, and that's that.
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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You love who you love, and I can't help that I like guys.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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The skies they were ashen and sober;The leaves they were crisped and sere - The leaves they were withering and sere;It was night in the lonesome OctoberOf my most immemorial year.
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Music means itself.
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How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?
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I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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At first you think, 'Gosh, monkeys, that's so kind of incredible … But you started to kind of feel a little bit, not competitive with the monkeys, but that they weren't really - they didn't really have your best interests at heart.They aren't these … They want to replace you. They're not that impressed with the opposable thumbs.'
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Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.
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Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.
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'One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.''Believers in what?''In everything.'
