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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I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test.
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There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting.
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I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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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
