John McCain Quotes
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.
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Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.'
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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I'm still wearing Target and hand-me-downs.
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I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.
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A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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A hallmark of sanity, Alex, is the courage to face even unpleasant points of view.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.
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I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.
