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 and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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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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My favourite TV show is 'Pretty Little Liars,' and I actually made a guest appearance on it. I didn't really have lines for my character, but I definitely want to get more into those kinds of shows.
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We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.
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Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
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My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.
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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.
