Kevin Macdonald Quotes
I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and piecing it all together. I love the treasure hunt aspect of it, the thrill of the chase.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress.
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Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
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I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and piecing it all together. I love the treasure hunt aspect of it, the thrill of the chase.
