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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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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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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I'm a lawyer. The right to life is important.
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The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest.
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A hung jury, however, suggests that any decline was not overwhelming; and, in common with most historians, I believe the empire was still very powerful at the end of the fourth century. Unfortunately, a series of disasters was soon to change things.
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We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.
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If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
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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.
