Nancy McKeon Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
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Bald is the new black!
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
