Cass McCombs Quotes

I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.

Cass McCombs

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• Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Children
  • Why
  • Nephews

• You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Yourself

• Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Gorgeous

• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Science
  • Problems

• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Hand
  • Growth
  • Values

• I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Always
  • Never

• Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Order
  • Everyone
  • Capitalism

• The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Integrity

• One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Today
  • Rest
  • Youth

• What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • School
  • Home

• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Serious

• I just look at what's going on in the world.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • World
  • Look
  • Just

• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Me
  • Single
  • Pleasure

• There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Communication
  • Media
  • Old

• Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Start

• Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • God
  • Folks
  • Witness

• Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Real
  • Progress
  • Discipline

• The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Band

• Then come on up. DO everyone a favor and shut me up," he said. "Put down your money, pick up that ball, and let it fly, looker." "I'd rather not" People laughed. He flapped his arms and squawked like a chicken "Afraid you can't throw that far?" "I know I can" He lifted his hat in a small salute to my claim. Blond curls slipped out, then he plopped the hat back on and said, "I dare you.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Arms
  • Balls
  • Claims

• I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Think
  • Human being
  • I Do Not