Carl Mitcham Quotes
Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we all increasingly engineer the world.
Quotes to Explore
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I like being unconventional.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
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Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
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That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
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What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
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We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
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Ch'aver può donna al mondo più di buono,A cui la castità levata sia?
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Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing.
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I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.
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You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.
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Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.
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By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.
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Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we all increasingly engineer the world.
