Cormac McCarthy Quotes
Where is your country? he said.I don't know, said John Grady. I don't know where it is. I don't know what happens to country.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
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That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.
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Keep going and the Lord will help you.
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Where is your country? he said.I don't know, said John Grady. I don't know where it is. I don't know what happens to country.
