John McCain Quotes

I thought I'd be president of the United States.

John McCain

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• Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Society
  • Fall
  • Crime

• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Sweet

• I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Experience
  • Like
  • Personal

• Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Need
  • Cash

• If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • You
  • Negative
  • Surprise

• I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• Caffeine. The gateway drug.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Drug
  • Caffeine
  • Gateway

• My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Up
  • Why
  • Deep

• I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Music
  • Think
  • Pretty

• The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Things
  • Existence
  • Loved

• I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Done
  • Career
  • Dinosaur

• I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Over

• I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Up
  • Think
  • Always

• Everybody wants me to show my vagina to the world. And the truth is, I don’t have to.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Truth

• Anjali: Oh, wow. I am tripping out that I actually get to work here! Being constantly surrounded by books! Bringing ideas, poems, and manifestoes to the world! How can you stand it?!Jezanna: That reminds me, Lois. The lube shipment just came in.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • World
  • Work

• Today, I will have to tell my children, along with all the children of Palestinian Arab towns in the country, that the state has declared that it does not want us here. ... It has passed a law of Jewish supremacy and told us that we will always be second-class citizens.

  

  Ayman Odeh
  • Country
  • Children
  • Today

• Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • Great
  • Insurance
  • Pool

• When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • People
  • Writing

• I've been very fortunate in animation - when I get on a project, people tend to keep me, so I have long stays of work rather than bouncing around.

  

  Dave Filoni
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Nice
  • Stupid

• The stage is like an addiction. Since singing and dancing had been my dreams all this time, I fall even more into those charms every time I’m on stage. These days I get the urge to make the audience go crazy.

  

  Gong Min-ji
  • Dream
  • Singing
  • Audience

• The casual is not Enough. The freshness of transformation isThe freshness of a world. It is our own, It is ourselves, the freshness of ourselves, And that necessity and that presentationAre rubbings of a glass in which we peer.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Transformation

• He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

  

  Mark E. Smith
  • Fall

• I thought I'd be president of the United States.

  

  John McCain