Mark McCormack Quotes
Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
Quotes to Explore
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
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I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.
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It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.
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Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.
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Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
