John McCain Quotes
During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.
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I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.
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During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.
