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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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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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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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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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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Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.
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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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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
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Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.
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Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
