Christian McKay Quotes
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
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My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.
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Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
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The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
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The one thing women love more than money is power.
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Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is in his own trap.
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I respect Floyd as a fighter but come 5 May, he's going to be hurting for weeks.
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What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?
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A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.
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From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.
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Money is lonely anyway. When you got it, people always want it. You don't want to be used; sometimes you don't know where a cat is comin' from.
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In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
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Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
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Some actors play themselves, don't they?
