Mark McKinnon Quotes

The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.

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• The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.

  

  Harold Perrineau
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• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

  

  Ed McMahon
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• You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
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• We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.

  

  Fat Joe
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• I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

  

  Randall Jarrell
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• Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

  

  Usher
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• Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.

  

  Raf Simons
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• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
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• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

  

  Rachel Roberts
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• As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

  

  Jack Ma
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• I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

  

  Pam Grier
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• What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

  

  John Cusack
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• You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it. It can get better, I think... aspects of it, anyway. I mean, I don't write as much as I used to. But I don't do a lot of things as much as I used to. So that's the natural order of things, too. You're more or less living in the present. You're just trying to get that next song, whatever it is. And not think too much about what happened on the last record, or the record you made 20 years ago, because those are over with. Those are done.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
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• Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
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• I don't spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn't realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.

  

  Bobby Orr
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• The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.

  

  Mark McKinnon
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