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Voters crave authenticity.

Mark McKinnon

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• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Misconception

• Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Good
  • Day

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Me
  • Economist

• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Weird

• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Read
  • Sight
  • Seen

• Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Fight
  • Injustice

• All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Red
  • Early
  • Roses

• My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Heart
  • Dark

• I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates the most basic of human rights... It's a difficult dilemma.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Human Rights
  • Village

• I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

  

  Charles Curtis

• The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.

  

  Lloyd Cutler
  • Country
  • Done
  • Political

• There are lots of ways to work together.

  

  Jacob Lew
  • Work
  • Together

• I always knew I had to work hard.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Work

• When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Challenge
  • Unique

• In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Media
  • Conclusion
  • Pair

• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Always
  • Aim
  • Authenticity

• My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

  

  Lisa Kristine
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Trust

• We're all gonna land, we don't have rocket packs that last forever. But these things that we love, these things that give us purpose, these moments along the way are our parachutes. So I feel very fortunate to have all of these. Art and my family are pretty much my biggest parachutes.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Family
  • Purpose
  • Forever

• To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human life—even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised against it.

  

  David Graeber
  • Life
  • History
  • Religious

• Voters crave authenticity.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Authenticity