David McCallum Quotes
But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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I work hard at what I do, and it does take time and a lot of commitment, so for me, it is proving to other people that I'm not just another dummy.
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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With 'GoldenEye,' the franchise got locked into this legal fight. They couldn't make new Bond movies for about seven years. It was my first huge production. I figured if I did at least a yeoman-like job, it would be greeted as a complete revival of the series.
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I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
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Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.
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But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.