Jack McDevitt Quotes
Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.
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I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.
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There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
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Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.
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Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
