Charles McCabe Quotes
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said 'No Sketching.' How obnoxious! I said, 'How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?'
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Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism. … It is the Fashion to be a wit. … one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
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My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.
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McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.
