John McCain Quotes

When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.

John McCain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 29, 1936 - August 25, 2018

Topics

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Once you become a celebrity, you are no longer a person, but an archetype.

Jennette McCurdy

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There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

Meg Myers

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I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.

Andie MacDowell

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Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.

Tom Peters

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When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

Ron Howard

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A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

Joseph Brodsky

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My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Dionne Warwick

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I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

Dorothy Fields

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I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.

Anthony Bourdain

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Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.

Svetlana Alexievich

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My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

Noam Chomsky

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I'm always down for a battle. I was born down.

Mark Hunt

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