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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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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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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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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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
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I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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I had a job transcribing a biotechnology-litigation seminar. You put headphones on and fast-forward and stop with your feet. There were a lot of 'um's.'
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You're the smile On the Mona Lisa.
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Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
