Jack McDevitt Quotes
Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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Once there was a certain man who was very clever, but it was his character to always see the negative points of his jobs. In such a way, one will be useless.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
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Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived.
