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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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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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'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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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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I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.
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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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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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 have the experience and ability to step in on day one in Washington and start working on the challenging problems facing our country.
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Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
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The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.
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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.
