Mark McKinnon Quotes

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

Mark McKinnon

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• Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Health
  • Space
  • Water

• The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Religion
  • Happiness

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Very
  • Much
  • Favor

• There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Time
  • Today
  • Like

• I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Book
  • Said
  • Blind

• My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Dogs

• Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Look
  • Republican
  • Newspaper

• Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Candy
  • Quicker
  • Dandy

• I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Have Fun

• My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'

  

  Vanessa Ray
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

  

  Edith Head
  • Star
  • See
  • Animals

• I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • May
  • Friends

• Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Pretty
  • Violence
  • Where

• I do have impossibly high standards.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Standards
  • High Standards

• Moore's new book, Dude, Where's My Country?, contains ten chapters of fulminations convincing the convinced. However, Moore does include one chapter on how to argue with a conservative. As if. Approached by someone like Michael Moore, a conservative would drop a quarter in Moore's Starbucks cup and hurriedly walk away.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Book

• There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.

  

  Man Ray
  • Different
  • Art
  • Progress

• Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

  

  Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Fortune
  • Turn
  • Prosperous

• We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.

  

  H. Bentley Glass
  • Great
  • Science
  • Mountain

• Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Up
  • Different
  • Bad

• To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

  

  Mark McKinnon