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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When you encounter some form of discrimination or maybe even worse, I urge you to alert others. Regardless of how small the incident is, it has to be brought to the attention of people like me and also the law enforcement agencies.
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There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.
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I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.
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The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
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I dont see you holdin no aces.
