Larry McMurtry Quotes
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.
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“A helplessly devoted student of human frailty”
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
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I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.
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People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
