Kevin McCarthy Quotes

The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

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• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Truth

• The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Girl
  • Dark
  • Years

• I'm very interested in film, but any more involvement would happen organically. I'm not really seeking anything out, just looking at projects that come up that interest me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Me
  • Film

• Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • See
  • Relationships

• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Stop

• I'm not a materialistic person.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Person
  • Materialistic

• We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

  

  Wale
  • Why
  • Man
  • Food

• You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Creative

• Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • House
  • Control

• Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • She
  • Fun

• You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • You
  • Forget
  • Drop

• I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Puzzle

• Men make more money but have lower net worths.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Money
  • More

• The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Good
  • American
  • Insanity

• Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World

• Commercial rock ’n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Music
  • Church
  • Rock

• His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

  

  Joey Adams
  • Marriage
  • Give
  • Take

• I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Day

• It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

  

  Andy Clark
  • World
  • Design
  • Inspiration

• I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

  

  Nicholas Brendon
  • Acting
  • Class
  • Speech

• When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!

  

  Brian Littrell
  • Boy

• The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

  

  Kevin McCarthy