Jack McDevitt Quotes
Well, kids are never much on history. Nor for that matter was anybody else. It had been MacAllister’s experience that most people think anything that happened before they were born didn’t count for a whole lot.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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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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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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It is certainly curious that among all the millions of books that have been written on every conceivable subject, so few writers have really tried to describe the tissue of their thoughts and the actual taste of consciousness. And yet this is, after all, our most immediate and direct experience, the only experience of whose reality we are absolutely certain.
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Well, kids are never much on history. Nor for that matter was anybody else. It had been MacAllister’s experience that most people think anything that happened before they were born didn’t count for a whole lot.
