John McCain Quotes

I don't know if you could ever say, quote 'mission accomplished,' as much as you could say 'Americans are out of harm's way.'

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• My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Culture

• I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Better
  • See

• India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Up
  • Country
  • Death

• My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Raising

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Through
  • Cloud

• Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Different
  • City
  • Awesome

• Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Chinese
  • Factory
  • Laptop

• I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Sleep
  • Weird
  • Clothes

• I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Tennis

• For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Organization
  • Level

• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  

  Leo Rosten
  • Bad

• I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • Reading

• The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Music

• What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • Thinking
  • History
  • Feeling

• When I first started acting, I was actually working with the National Youth Theatre in London doing anti-knife crime workshops, so I was listening to a lot of music that was around us all the time, around the guys I was working with, and the kids - lots of young grime artists from London.

  

  Joe Cole
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kids

• Failure is always present as an actor. I make my living by taking chances. If I'm not risking something, then I'm not doing my job, so I'm constantly failing. In fact, I'm trying to fail bigger. I try to focus on the positive, the moment, and try to realize where I'm at in an attempt to understand the failure.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Present
  • Failure
  • Actor

• You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Family
  • Job

• I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Feels

• I don't know if you could ever say, quote 'mission accomplished,' as much as you could say 'Americans are out of harm's way.'

  

  John McCain