Roger McGuinn Quotes
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
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Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
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Im not attracted to expensive things.
