Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

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• The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Nice
  • Like
  • Thought

• Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Face

• I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• I love doing kids' films.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Kids
  • Doing
  • Films

• When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Human
  • Audience
  • Landscape

• I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Work
  • Like
  • Singer

• Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Small
  • Change
  • Theory

• It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Relationship
  • Woman
  • Very

• I decided to be a part of 'Bajrangi'... because I felt that it tells a very relevant story.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Story
  • Very
  • Relevant

• We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Leader

• I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Night

• Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Stories
  • Successful
  • Effect

• In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Democracy

• One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

  

  Haniel Long
  • God
  • Heart
  • Mother

• When we read what Goethe says about men we are ashamed of what we have said; when we read what he says about painting and statues we are ashamed of what Goethe has said.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Men
  • Painting

• Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Health
  • Solitude
  • Jealousy

• I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Children
  • Parents

• You know, I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together. And you know, if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Together
  • Respect

• One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Criticism
  • Agree
  • Upset

• What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

  

  Albert Camus
  • Men
  • Real
  • Power

• People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.

  

  Will Cotton
  • Universal
  • Sweets
  • Overindulgence

• Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

  

  Kathleen Troia McFarland