John McCarthy Quotes
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
John McCarthy
Quotes to Explore
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
Adam McKay
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
J. M. Coetzee
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
Flavor Flav
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The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
Rachel Nichols
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Fashion has always been a source of stress for me because I don't know how to dress myself. I'm short-torsoed with big boobs, and I don't really understand what a belt does. But you get on these shows, and people fit the clothing to you, and suddenly you learn, 'Oh, I should be wearing petite jackets.'
Rachel Bloom
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
Orlando Bloom
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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
George Borrow
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I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.
Medgar Evers
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The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.
Frans de Waal
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
Frances O'Grady
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When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
John McCarthy
