John McCarthy Quotes
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
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This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.
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In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
