Mark McKinnon Quotes
To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
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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.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
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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.
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Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
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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.
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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.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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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.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
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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.
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I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
