Everett McGill Quotes
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Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.
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There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.
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When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.
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European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive.
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I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
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The death penalty is reserved for people who do not.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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The Ninth Amendment makes it clear that all the rights spelled out in the Constitution aren't the end of rights as we know them. It makes it clear that there are rights reserved to people that aren't spelled out in the Constitution.
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Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.
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I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.
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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
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...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.
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He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.
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Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk into His presence in purity and virtue, and receive His blessings—even 'all that he hath.'
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
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It remains a mystery to me why some of that pulp fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social literary fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.
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In Kansas, people are reserved, quiet, taciturn.
