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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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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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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An imam should be able to say that homosexuals are worse than pigs. My only demand is that you mustn't incite violence.
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We are trying to find drugs, small molecules, that people could take to make them disease-resistant, more youthful and healthy. Eventually we will find them.
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Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway.
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How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
