David Macbeth Moir Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I know all the critics.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I've been things and seen places.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but true spirituality. Of course there can be vain, self-seeking loving, but to go (sometimes literally) out of our way to help animals, to expend effort to secure their protection and to feel with them their suffering and to be moved by it-these are surely signs of spiritual greatness.
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Look to the lilies how they grow!
