William McCune Quotes
If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.
Quotes to Explore
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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To be whole is to be part;true voyage is return.
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortion in the group which, in general, most frequently uses contraceptives.
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The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
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If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent - at least when it comes to housing - we should own up to that decision and stop repeating the canard about this rich country being unable to afford more.
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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.
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Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.
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If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.
