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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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.
Ford Frick
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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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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13.
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The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word
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It had been his experience that the worst cynics all started out as idealists.
