John McCain Quotes
Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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I am a little bit of an egomaniac. I like being in front of the camera, so I take advantage of it when I can.
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You can only be you, and there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't have you be any other way.
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A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.
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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
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It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.
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Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.
