Jack McDevitt Quotes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.
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I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.
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Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may findThee sitting careless on a granary floor,Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hookSpares the next swath and all its twined flowers.
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If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
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I'm not attacking anyone. I have no animosity towards Lana, I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience
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It had been his experience that the worst cynics all started out as idealists.
