Kevin McCarthy Quotes
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
Carly Fiorina
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
Pat Metheny
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At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
Octavia E. Butler
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Yael Naim
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
Dan Deacon
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
Tamsin Greig
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
Wassily Kandinsky
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I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.
Action Bronson
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Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
AJ McLean
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I'm still swimming.
Ian Thorpe
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Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
Malcolm Wallop
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If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.
Carice van Houten
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Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
Samuel Johnson
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
Edward Abbey
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I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit.
Margaret Sanger
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Thank God for gay men. Thank God for gay men, because if it were not for gay men, I would not talk to men at all.
Margaret Cho
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I feel like the expectations have gone up. It's not a complaint, but it's a little intimidating. People are like, 'Oh, you're on Matador. It's kind of a legendary label - you're going to have to live up to all those other bands.' I guess it's not that explicit.
Lucy Dacus
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I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
Rumi
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Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'
Carson Kressley
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The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.
Jo Durie
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When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.
Damien Rice
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I'm willing to fight, but I want to fight to win.
Kevin McCarthy
