Cormac McCarthy Quotes
Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.
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Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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Dealing with a government Tsarist Russia with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.
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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
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We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.
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There is nothing more important in my life than my relationship with God and my faith. I have been so driven to my knees to pray for His guidance, for His wisdom, for His grace and for His Strength. I'm never going to tell anybody else how to live, I'm never going to preach to anybody else and tell them you must do that. But I sure would like to see more Americans give it a try and seek the guidance that our Founding Fathers sought and were able to then craft documents that allowed America to become the greatest, strongest, healthiest, most prosperous nation on earth.
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Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to the aching sadness for a life I can never have again. Now, I can think the word and not feel anything but a dull ache, a phantom pain for a part of my life that’s been amputated.
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Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.
