John McCain Quotes
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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Academic success depends on research and publications.
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It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.
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It's much easier to make a Superman or Batman film than a Green Lantern film.
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I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
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In the words of Chairman Mao, 'It's darkest before it's totally black.'
