Bill McCartney Quotes

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

Bill McCartney

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• I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Reading

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Immigration

• There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Family
  • Father
  • Rich

• I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Doing

• Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Working
  • New
  • Again

• I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Play
  • Always
  • Dive

• One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Responsibility
  • Violence

• When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Call

• In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Patriot

• Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Work
  • Day
  • Amazing

• My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • God
  • Character

• You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Long
  • Why
  • Breakfast

• He suspected the troops felt closer to somebody who spoke a different language but asked them questions than they did to somebody who shared their language and only ever used it to give orders.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Different

• I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Good
  • Promise

• For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

  

  David Mixner
  • People
  • Important
  • Decision

• Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Human
  • Relationships
  • Isolation

• The Universe is responding purely to the desire that you have right now, and if the desires that you have right now are pure and unencumbered by all of your excuses about why you're not where you want to be, your vibration would be pure and the Universe would yield to you easily and it would not take years or weeks or days. It would be instant manifestation.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Desire
  • Universe
  • Week

• I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

  

  Bill McCartney