Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
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The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
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Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
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I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
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If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.
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I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.
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It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' at the end of it. Like, 'I love you... man.' You just can't look at another man and say, 'I love you.'
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
