John McCain Quotes
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.
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My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
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I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
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The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
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Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
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During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
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The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
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No one is beat till he quits,No one is through till he stops,No matter how hard Failure hits,No matter how often he drops,A fellow's not down till he liesIn the dust and refuses to rise.
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The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
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We have to be cognizant of the fact that they've had foreign fighters coming to volunteer for them, foreign money, foreign weapons, so we have to make this the top priority.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.
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By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.
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It was as the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.
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I’m sort of like Costco. I’m big, I’m not fancy and I dare you to not like me.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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Where are they now, my nameless friends from those two years I spent in hell? What specters mock them now, amid the fury of Siberian snows, or in the blighted circle of the moon? To them I cry, Hail and Farewell! - March 1940
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Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.
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Repetition yields constants. Constants create cultures.
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Contracting a fatal disease.
