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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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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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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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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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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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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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've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Chênière Caminada; the old sunny fort at Grand Terre. I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul.'
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The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
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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.
