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

• 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

• 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

• How sweet on the breeze of the evening swellsThe vesper call of those soothing bells,Borne softly and dying in echoes away,Like a requiem sung to the parting day.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Sweet
  • Dying

• Do you realize sufficiently what it means to rule-to rule in a secret society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the populace, but over the best of men, over men of all ranks, nations, and religions, to rule without external force, to unite them indissolubly, to breathe one spirit and soul into them, men distributed over all parts of the world?

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • World
  • Men
  • Important

• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • Good
  • America
  • City

• The simplest answer is to act.

  

  Amy Sarig King

• As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

  

  Patton Oswalt

• Father absence has been implicated in anorexia nervosa, in which daughters may exhibit literal father hunger by starving themselves.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • May
  • Father
  • Absence

• I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Up
  • Remember

• 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