Mark McKinney Quotes
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
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Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
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My beauty regime is very simple. I just take my make-up off before bed. And oh, I always put moisturiser on. But that's about it, apart from a bit of soap maybe.
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Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut.
