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

• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

  

  George Eliot
  • Imagination
  • Windows
  • Fear Of Dogs

• I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Friends

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

  

  Mark McKinnon