Eugene McCarthy Quotes

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

Eugene McCarthy

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• It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Want
  • Actor

• I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Thought
  • Golf

• I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Good
  • Like
  • Body

• So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • May
  • Talent
  • Ability

• I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Noise

• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Everything
  • Starts
  • Daydream

• Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Like
  • Always
  • Philosophy

• We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Opportunities

• By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Way
  • Prayer

• For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Live
  • Me

• I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Director
  • Manager
  • Hometown

• Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
  • Truth
  • For Her

• I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Movies
  • Fans

• If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Should
  • Driving
  • Going

• The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Evil

• It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Financial

• If it's just going to go in my body, then I don't want fancy things in my body. I just want regular things in my body.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Body
  • Fancy
  • Regular

• The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term

  

  Wilfrid
  • Together
  • Understand
  • Philosophy

• Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Possible
  • Politically