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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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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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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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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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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Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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Here come the planes. They're American planes. Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking?
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Once having proclaimed our loyalty to the abstract idea that all men are created equal, we do everything in our power to prove ourselves unequal. Among the world's peoples, none other belongs to so many clubs, associations, committees and secret societies.
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Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.
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There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.
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I wouldn't change anything for the world, although the fame part of this [entertainment] industry is tough to handle at times.
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I grew up in the industry, so this whole entertainment thing is my world. If I had to leave it, maybe I'd be a race-car driver. That'd be awesome.
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I don't know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.
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Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
