Terrence McNally Quotes

Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.

Terrence McNally

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• Cheating

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• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Travel

• The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • High
  • Daily
  • Paper

• The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Courage
  • Go

• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • You
  • Right
  • Counsel

• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Doing

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Football

• I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Live
  • Vision
  • Young

• When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Know
  • Danger
  • Israel

• Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Unknown
  • Known
  • Else

• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Question
  • Day

• I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Men
  • Rule
  • Pictures

• À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.

  

  Victor Hugo

• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Friendship
  • Integrity

• The language of communication will always need to be renewed.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Communication

• When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

  

  Ken Kercheval
  • Serious
  • Athlete

• Detroit is full of talent.

  

  Martha Reeves

• Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • People
  • Bad
  • Cheating

• The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Positive

• Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.

  

  Terrence McNally
  • Trust
  • Achieve
  • Cheating