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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When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
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Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me.
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I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.
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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.
