Kevin McCarthy Quotes
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
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As to why some are touched by the law and others not, so that some receive and others scorn the offer of grace...this is the hidden will of God, Who, according to His own counsel, ordains such persons as He wills to receive and partake of the mercy preached and offered.
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The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people.
