Christian McKay Quotes
People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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Quebec City, Canada: 'A rotten priest-ridden community who are the completest passengers & who won't do their bit in anything & of course not during the war !!' (23 Aug 1919)
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I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.
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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
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People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.
