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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My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I think kids in France, and certainly in my household, don't necessarily stop interrupting when you tell them, but they gradually become more aware of other people, and that means that you can have the expectation of finishing a conversation.
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I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.
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I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.
