Eugene McCarthy Quotes
I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
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One of those creatures wrote you once, ‘do not call up any that you can not put down’.
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When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
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You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'
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The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
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I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.
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As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
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Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
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You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
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I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.
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There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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I believe in the greatness of our people.
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I'm comfortable in front of the camera, but I can't act.
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There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.
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It was just a general feeling I have. I'm looking for someone to really establish themselves as the quarterback, take over and take off with the team.
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But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.
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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.
