Joseph McCabe Quotes
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.
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The label didn't want me to do this look. But cutting my hair, it made me stand out as an artist. I don't care who likes it-this is me.
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I don't think I've ever done a real mini-series, but I love doing film first and foremost.
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This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.
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[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
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I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.
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Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.
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I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.
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Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
