Mark McKinnon Quotes
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'
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We are not by nature cruel.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
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Sunlight is painting.
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The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
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I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
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He's fighting for the world title, so we're prepared for the best John Thompson.
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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
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As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
