Mark McKinney Quotes

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• Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Important
  • Effort
  • Training

• I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Same
  • Sword

• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Government
  • Risk

• When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Look
  • Questions
  • Tough

• 'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Happy

• It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Live
  • Free
  • Childhood

• I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Yourself
  • Look
  • Television

• Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Character
  • Integrity

• My mom was a single parent.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Single
  • Mom
  • Parent

• I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and I'm proud of the constituent service that we provide.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Service

• I think work begets work.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Work
  • Think
  • I Think

• Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Peace
  • Look

• Certain exterior impulses hit the economic mechanism and thereby initiate more or less regular oscillations.

  

  Ragnar Frisch

• I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • True
  • Doubt

• Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Why
  • Question

• Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

  

  David Naughton
  • Theatre

• The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Why
  • Political
  • Moment

• Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.

  

  Alvin Langdon Coburn
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Photography

• I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • Band
  • Player

• If you ask why start-ups outperform established enterprises when it comes to catching the next wave, the answer is that they are not conflicted. Everyone is rowing in the same direction. That is never the case in a company that has a portfolio of businesses at different stages in their maturity. So the key to winning there has to be to "zone out" the conflicts - sort of like sending quarrelling children each to their own room.

  

  Geoffrey Moore
  • Different
  • Children
  • Winning

• I'm a little thirsty, can I go drink out of your toilet?

  

  Mark McKinney