Cormac McCarthy Quotes
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them
