Mark McKinnon Quotes
Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
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A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.
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I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
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Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.
