Jack McDevitt Quotes
But the old man had provided his kids with one priceless gift: He’d encouraged them to read, and he didn’t bother too much about the content, subscribing to the theory that good books ultimately speak for themselves.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.
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There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
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I know other people who have started their kids in tackle football for, like, four- and five-year-olds. So I think it's up to each individual's parents, but for me personally, no I wouldn't. But would I be OK with him playing in seventh or eighth grade? Yes.
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But the old man had provided his kids with one priceless gift: He’d encouraged them to read, and he didn’t bother too much about the content, subscribing to the theory that good books ultimately speak for themselves.
