John McCain Quotes
To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.
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I have been very pleased at the response we have got for 'SVSC.'
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A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.
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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
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Indian film awards lack credibility.
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To write a novel is fundamentally an act of impudence. To comb one's hair is also an act of impudence, especially when it's done to try to cover a scar running across the top of one's forehead. But combing one's hair is an act of minor impudence, whereas writing is a more serious affair. We mask reality, we hide our fears, we reinvent things that have been said, and above all, the people who said them. Writing a novel implies a certain perversity. It's not something one can do with a tortoiseshell comb. It is perhaps for that reason that they take away my pen at night. Not, as they pretend, to prevent me from accidentally stabbing myself in the throat with it- but to prevent me from killing anyone else.
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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno
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Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy.
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They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.
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To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not.
