Cormac McCarthy Quotes
It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.
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I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.
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Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and terrorists are bad people. The ideals of these groups are in opposition to everything our nation stands for and everything that holds true to our founding principles. Their hatred of people dissimilar to them is un-American, and it should not be tolerated under any circumstances.
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We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.
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It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
