John McCain Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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Most men are fragile.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.
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The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.
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I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
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When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
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What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be.'
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In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.
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Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.
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With Asian-Americans actors, specifically, there's been fewer opportunities for them in TV and film and fewer that have the ability to actually make a career out of it. It becomes a bit of a chicken and egg situation, where they're like, 'Oh, but they're not famous names,' but they haven't had a chance to be in anything yet, either.
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It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.
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Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times ALREADY – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.
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I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted.
