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

• Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Lord

• Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Imagination
  • Murder
  • Commit

• The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.

  

  Gary Lutz
  • Way
  • Right
  • Writer

• However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

  

  William Labov
  • Different
  • Important
  • Becoming

• I demonstrated through my work that I can rally other people to support legislation and get it passed.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • People
  • Work
  • Support

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

  

  Mary McCarthy