Cormac McCarthy Quotes
Because he is a special kind of keeper. A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgments. - The judge.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.
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I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
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Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country... my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go - do your work.
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The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
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Because he is a special kind of keeper. A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgments. - The judge.
