David McCord Quotes
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I like being unconventional.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy... already made... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there.
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When I'm shooting, I just try to make sure I wouldn't be embarrassed of it later, because in Watertown, you don't get away with anything.
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A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
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I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.
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Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.
