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'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.
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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 my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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People want to hear the gossip. They don't want to hear about the shots.
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We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.
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I dont see you holdin no aces.
