Eugene McCarthy Quotes
One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.
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Never explain, never complain.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
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The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
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When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Strong women, that's who I really respect.
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I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.
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No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
