Andrew C. McCarthy Quotes

In Obama terminology, “hope” is the possibility that power may be wrested from society’s “haves” by infiltrating their political system.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Forever
  • Inside

• Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • View

• I'm starting to find my own style.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Style
  • Find
  • Starting

• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Effort

• Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Ugly
  • Machine

• I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Want
  • Moral
  • Try

• To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Way
  • Afghanistan
  • Camel

• Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Marriage

• I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Fascinated

• To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Picture
  • Honest

• You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Time
  • Death
  • Pain

• My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Intention

• Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Best
  • Like

• I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Different
  • Age
  • Reality

• Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Me

• On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Decision
  • Immigration
  • Selfishness

• Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Different
  • History
  • Hope

• For us to accomplish our goals, it will be necessary to transform our political culture, to respect plurality, and to build, among ourselves, bridges and more bridges.

  

  Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
  • Political
  • Culture
  • Respect

• I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Movies

• One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly

• I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

  

  Baran Odar
  • Thinking
  • German
  • Germany

• In Obama terminology, “hope” is the possibility that power may be wrested from society’s “haves” by infiltrating their political system.

  

  Andrew C. McCarthy
  • Hope
  • Political
  • System