Charles McGrath (David Charles McGrath) Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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I don't do negative things.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.
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Through studies of music and the brain, we've learned to map out specific areas involved in emotion, timing, and perception - and production of sequences. They've told us how the brain deals with patterns and how it completes them when there's misinformation.
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There are all kinds of things that can scare you every day. What if someone you know gets cancer? What if something happens to you sister or your friends or your parents? And what if you get hit by a car crossing the street or the kids at school find out what an unnatural freak you are and what if you go too far out in the lake and the water is over your head and what if there's a fire or a war? And you can lie awake at night and worry about these things because it's scary and unpredictable, but it's REAL. It's possible.
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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.
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The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.
