John McCarthy Quotes
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
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It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.
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In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
