Colum McCann Quotes
He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then ease away from it.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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It doesn't make the coal burn more efficiently, ... It doesn't make it burn more clean. It does generate a tax credit. It's a way of dodging taxes.
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He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then ease away from it.
