Dennis McKinsey Quotes
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
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Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
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Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
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'Lieutenant Crosshaw says you are a special case!' bellowed Helve. 'I do not like special cases! Special cases do not make good soldiers! Special cases do not help other recruits become good soldiers! Therefore, you will not be a special case! You understand me!' 'I think so-' 'Shut up! That was not a question!'
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Selbst in den äusserlichen Gebräuchen sollte sich die Lebensart der Künstler von der Lebensart der übrigen Menschen durchaus unterscheiden. Sie sind Braminen, eine höhere Kaste, aber nicht durch Geburt sondern durch freye Selbsteinweihung geadelt.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power.
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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
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Sometimes you tell the day
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To Americans religious freedom is sacred.
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Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
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I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.
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There is no conservative party left in Washington. Conservative thinkers and writers who were to be the watchdogs of orthodoxy have been as vigilant in policing party deviations from principle as was Cardinal Law in collaring the predator-priests of the Boston archdiocese.
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If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.
