David G. McAfee Quotes
Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.
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The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.
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The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him.
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Shelley was kicked out of Oxford-I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares-because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.
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Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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There is a huge opportunity in the intermarriage trend. These are people who, if you show them how vital the community is and how great it is to raise kids Jewish, these people are going to raise their kids Jewish. Ultimately, that's all that matters.
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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.
