Douglas McGrath Quotes

I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.

Douglas McGrath

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• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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  • Opportunity

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
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• I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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  • Cinema

• The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
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• The 100m is never stressful.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Like
  • Green
  • Environmental

• It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Skinny

• I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • Think
  • Computers

• I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Nice

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Learning

• I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Believe
  • Serious
  • Prison

• Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Growing
  • Gas
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• Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May

• I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
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• You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • Up
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• In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Function
  • Poem
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• Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

  

  Georges Lefebvre
  • Prayer
  • Solitude
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• I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.

  

  Will Self
  • Remember
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• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Together

• I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.

  

  Douglas McGrath
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Figured