Kevin McCarthy Quotes

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

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• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Roses

• If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

  

  Oliver St. John
  • Queen
  • Flow
  • Bee

• My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • School
  • Mother
  • President

• I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Up
  • You
  • Energy

• For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Up
  • Music
  • Character

• It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Always
  • Call

• Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • Work
  • Feel

• Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Social
  • Reform
  • Brings

• You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Effort

• I can't die but once.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Die
  • Once

• Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Think
  • Day
  • Always

• The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Work
  • Best
  • Win

• I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Important
  • Day
  • Eyes

• One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Excellence

• Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Desire

• If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

  

  John Kricfalusi
  • Family
  • High
  • Guy

• And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Men
  • Done
  • Democracy

• It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Women
  • Age

• We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Art
  • May
  • Power

• The realm of making microbudget stuff will always be totally in our control. Most of the time, we just pay for those out of pocket. Then there is stuff that's too expensive for us to pay for, and we want partners on, like 'Togetherness' and 'Animals' and some of our original Netflix movies.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • Time
  • Control

• What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Control