Mark McKinnon Quotes
If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.
Quotes to Explore
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.
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It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
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We're there, ... We can debate the reasons why we're there. ... But we are there.
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When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
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If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.
