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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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.
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I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation.
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I don't want to become Washington.
