Andrew McCarthy Quotes
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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A couple of people are strongly considering running there but have yet to make their final decision. We're pretty confident that we will have a good candidate there.
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I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.
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The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.
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The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
