Cormac McCarthy Quotes
You think about all that stuff that can happen to you, he said. There aint no end to it.
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There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.
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For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
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The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
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I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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Helping Wall Street regain confidence and stability was the last thing an angry public wanted in 2009 after the markets crashed. But without such support, markets can buckle and liquidity can disappear - often for decades, as has been the case in Japan.
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As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.
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Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.
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David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.
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You think about all that stuff that can happen to you, he said. There aint no end to it.
