John McCain Quotes
In all candor, if I'd been President of the United States, I'd have ordered the plane landed at the nearest Air Force base, and I'd have been over here, ok?
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
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For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying to take those strides forward to find a place to sing, to make a music career. It was small increments, but I always knew that I had to take the next opportunity.
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I was one of the first American rock n' rollers in the '50s to go to many foreign countries. It's a wonderful thing to go out and spread joy and love rather than hate.
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My word is gold, And I make sure everyone gets paid.
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In all candor, if I'd been President of the United States, I'd have ordered the plane landed at the nearest Air Force base, and I'd have been over here, ok?
