Colman McCarthy Quotes
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm painfully middle class.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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The civilian wants to respect what the veteran has gone through. The veteran wants to protect memories that are painful and sacred to him from outside judgment.
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Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
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Holmes is the hardest part I have ever played - harder than Hamlet or Macbeth. Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
