John McCarthy Quotes

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

John McCarthy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 19, 1857 - March 30, 1943

Topics

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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

Jesse Jackson

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If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

John Lithgow

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Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

Matthieu Ricard

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I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

Michael Bergin

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My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

Tom Wolfe

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He preaches well that lives well.

Miguel de Cervantes

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I'm homemade. I upload my videos in my living room; I edit everything, and I upload on my laptop. And my viewers love that about me, and they get inspired and do it themselves.

Michelle Phan

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The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a 'public purpose.'

Michael Kinsley

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Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.

Jason Patric

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I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.

Jason Reynolds

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As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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The Jews are always up for a laugh.

Bryan Fogel

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