Cormac McCarthy Quotes
He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I don't like controversy.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
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When I left Tinder, I had no intention of getting back into the dating industry. What I ultimately wanted to do was start this contagious complimentary social network, where kindness was at the helm.
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The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.
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Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.
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He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
