Jack McDevitt Quotes
Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.
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People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
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In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.
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Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
