Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'
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It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.
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We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
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R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.
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People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody – running back, quarterback, wide receiver – make the plays that Vince Young made today.
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To the cheater, there is no such thing as honesty, and to Republicans the idea of serving the public good is counterfeit on the face of it - they never felt such an urge, and therefore it must not exist.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse
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Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
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We have never seen more threats against our nation and its citizens than we do today.
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If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.
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The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.
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He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?
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Now she is like everyone else.
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I dont see you holdin no aces.
