Larry McMurtry Quotes
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me?
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In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that embraced and hungered for new music, as they did in the Classical period. I tell my students that they should just keep writing, write what pleases you, and don't worry about what people or critics may think about your music.
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And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
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If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
