Jack McDevitt Quotes
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
Laura Harring -
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
Wayne Rogers -
Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox -
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
Danica McKellar -
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
Pablo Sandoval -
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
Warren Zevon -
I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
Feist -
I don't really yell at people.
Nancy Reagan -
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
Uma Thurman
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
La'Porsha Renae -
God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
Calvin Johnson -
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
Ira Glass -
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
Abraham Cahan -
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
Barack Obama
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
A. James Clark -
Who would you rather be with: someone with more alternatives or someone with fewer?
Andy Dunn -
I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.
Dave Gibbons -
When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
Karl Urban -
She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.
Jack Roy -
Prudence, and experience, suggested she expect the worst.
Jack McDevitt