Paul McCartney Quotes
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
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It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
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In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
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The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over.
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We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around
