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

• For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.

  

  Reince Priebus
  • Protect
  • Retirement
  • Democrats

• In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Business
  • Power
  • True

• I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Children
  • Character
  • Literature

• Love seems like such a simple thing to ask for. Such a basic right. It takes no skill, no experience, no money, no education, nothing – it can happen to anyone. But it doesn't happen to everyone. Even though everyone, deep down, wants it. Anyway, I do.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Money
  • Love
  • Experience

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

  

  Mark McKinney