Mary McCarthy Quotes
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Mary McCarthy
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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
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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
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If you want success, be unique.
Natalie Massenet
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
Kate Bush
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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
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
Pat Buchanan
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All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
Lao Tzu
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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
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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
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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
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
Sai Baba
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Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'
Jack Welch
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.
Jamie Foxx
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As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.
R. C. Sproul
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Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Thomas Aquinas
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Tolerance has been a very important feature of Christianity from its very roots, despite all the other things that have gone on since. And that, I think, must be the global perspective. Tolerance implies more than saying, "Well, let the Muslims go on with what they are doing." It also means trying to learn something from them and adding that to your own tradition. That is the attitude I think needs to inform the global citizen of the future.
Ninian Smart
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Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job.
Nick Diaz
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Mary McCarthy
