Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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I don't look at money as success. I look at it as an avenue to freedom.
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
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Funny how so many rookies out there still judge condition of the US economy on the rigged "stock market". I frankly find it hilarious.
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One of these days I would give Pratt and Whitney back this engine and they could send it round airports as an advertisement, wearing a little brass plate reading This engine actually worked in this condition thus enabling Bill Cary to work in his condition. If you, too, are an idiot, P & W engines may save you from yourself.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. - The judge.
