John McCain Quotes
To state the obvious, I thought it was wrong at the time... those statements and comments did not comport with the facts on the ground. … But do I blame the President for that specific banner? I can't blame him for that.
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.
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There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
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When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.
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To state the obvious, I thought it was wrong at the time... those statements and comments did not comport with the facts on the ground. … But do I blame the President for that specific banner? I can't blame him for that.
