Jack McDevitt Quotes
Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves.'We watch television,' Dave said.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.
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Politics ruins the character.
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There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.
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If I have to leave, I don't want to leave without another ring.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves.'We watch television,' Dave said.
