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 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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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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I wake up with the story in my head, so I really like to be at my desk about five minutes after I wake up. So I don't get dressed. I put on a bathrobe, I make tea and sit at my desk.
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Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
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I think good things happen to good people.
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We tend to become social core groups, whatever our similar interest and background where we came through. It tends to be a filter through which people see themselves. It can be all different ethnicities. They can see themselves as San Franciscans, or Warriors fans. You want to build a tribe of viral advocates for that team.
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I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.
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At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.
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Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
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We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.
