Eugene McCarthy Quotes
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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I'm cautious about a lot of words.
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If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.
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I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.
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We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.
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You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.
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There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.
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I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.
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Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
