Eugene McCarthy Quotes
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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We all have to make choices in life.
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Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
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I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.
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The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
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Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
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When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute, the world changed for me.
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How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?
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I want to declare to you today: Jesus died to make you holy. It is possible for you to live a life without bondage to sin.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.
