John McCarthy Quotes
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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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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Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.
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I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.
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Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.
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If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.
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Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
