Cormac McCarthy Quotes
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.
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When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
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I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
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I know that I'm a natural attacking player. I love to attack. I love to play freely; I love to combine and play through balls. That's the nature of my game.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.
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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
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I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.
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The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
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Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
