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• We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

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• Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don’t get enough of them.

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• People who know, know. The others, it really doesn’t matter.

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• In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

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• I’ve never outgrown my childhood.

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• I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it’s governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

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• I feel it’s a person’s duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

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• I didn’t want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

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• Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

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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.

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• If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

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David McCallum (11)

Birth:	19th September, 1933
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Actor, Musician

About

David McCallum was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a Scottish actor and musician. He first gained recognition in the 1960s for playing Russian spy Illya Kuryakin, a Russian secret agent, in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and as interdimensional operative Steel in Sapphire & Steel. His first acting role was in Whom the Gods Love, Die Young playing a doomed royal. His first American film was Freud the Secret Passion, directed by John Huston, which was shortly followed by a role in Peter Ustinov's Billy Budd. Since 2003 McCallum has starred in the CBS television series NCIS as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, the team's chief medical examiner and one of the show's most popular characters. In the 1960s, McCallum recorded four albums for Capitol Records with music producer David Axelrod.

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