John McCarthy Quotes
Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
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It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
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To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
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America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.
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I'm fascinated by simple joy.
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I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
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My face is not perfect. Because my nose is not sharp, many people suggested I should get my nose done.
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I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.
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I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal childhood like we had. We went to school by the school bus, had school food... There was no special treatment given to us. The same applies to my children as well.
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On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.
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I'd have to say that Muay Thai is something special. It's really demanding and it's becoming popular all around the world.
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It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.
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The three extreme kinds of schizophrenia are unmistakable: the haunted paranoid surrounded by his imaginary community of spies and assassins, the clownish, sometimes incontinent hebephrenic, and the frozen catatonic.
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For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
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No one says the word 'quirky' much in England. I guess because people are more naturally eccentric.
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My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.
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Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.
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Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
