Mark McKinnon Quotes

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Mark McKinnon

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• Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Foundation

• There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Me
  • Single

• I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Sweet
  • Shoes

• There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Songs

• We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • You
  • Know

• There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Best
  • Mediocrity

• I care about writing music and playing my music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Care

• The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Moving

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • News
  • Journalism
  • Early

• 'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Films
  • Favorite
  • Runner

• One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.

  

  Kajol
  • Reality
  • Dance
  • Judge

• I don't use labels a lot.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Use
  • Lot
  • Labels

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Dream
  • Heaven
  • Democracy

• I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Love
  • Yourself

• We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • People
  • Good
  • Responsibility

• A stocky figure in a frock coat sprang up the front steps of the White House.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Steps
  • White House
  • Coat

• Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Danger
  • Industry
  • Violent Death

• A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Democracy