John McCain Quotes
We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I have no ill will about anything.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.
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I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.
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Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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Once stock prices reach the point at which it is hard to value them by logical methodology, stocks will be bought as they were in the late 1920s not for investment but to be unloaded at a still higher price. The ensuing break could be disastrous because panic psychology cannot be summarily altered or reversed by easing money policies.
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We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.
