Kevin Macdonald Quotes
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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Since I was a young girl, I always wanted to pursue law studies. I would have never imagined that my career would have taken a complete different route.
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Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.
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My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.
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Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.
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I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
