Campbell McGrath Quotes
What lasts, what endures, as Shakespeare knew, is this: the story of a life. No more, no less.
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Good design should be honest.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
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There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely.
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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What lasts, what endures, as Shakespeare knew, is this: the story of a life. No more, no less.
