Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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I grew up in the Bronx.
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Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.
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To finally have people receive and hear what I'm saying is one of the most gratifying feelings an artist can ever have.
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...words were said that could not be put right again...
