Kevin McCarthy Quotes
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
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When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
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My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.
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You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
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I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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There are many paths but only one journey.
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But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.
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The level of achievement that we have at anything, is a reflection, of how well, we were able to focus on it. Because the only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
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I watched my parents. My dad worked nights, and I was aware of how much he was doing for us. My mom was a Tupperware lady and also worked at the school. I always felt that I couldn't let them down. And I had a natural discipline from early on. I was always training for something.
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There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.
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I don't want to become Washington.
