Mary McCarthy Quotes

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

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• I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Leftwing

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Always
  • About
  • Heroes

• The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Drama
  • Rich
  • Become

• Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Fear

• The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • New
  • Choose
  • Walk

• We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom

• If you want success, be unique.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Want
  • Success
  • Unique

• I think quotes are very dangerous things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • High
  • Car
  • Better

• Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Problem
  • Security
  • Living

• All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Things
  • Being

• Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Explore

• Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Memory
  • Thanks
  • Boredom

• I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Name
  • Absolute
  • Residence

• Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Business
  • Job

• Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Done
  • Power

• The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Money
  • Growing

• I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Song
  • Cool

• I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • Fun
  • Desire
  • Trust

• Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

  

  Mary McCarthy