Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
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We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
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There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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… just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.
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One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
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The Legislative has no right to absolute, arbitrary power over the lives and fortunes of the people; nor can mortals assume a prerogative not only too high for men, but for angels, and therefore reserved for the exercise of the Deity alone.
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The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.
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I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.
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A family member of mine was diagnosed with lymphoma, and the treatment they're getting wouldn't exist if it weren't for the work that Team in Training does. I want to support them.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Some people put their work on the internet and check every day how many people look, how many people made contact, but I don't have internet, I don't have a hand-phone, I don't have fax, I don't have email. I just have old-fashioned telephone and letters.
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I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.
