Mark McKinnon Quotes
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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Everyone loves to be loved.
Mark Spitz -
I think jamming is the way we begin to communicate. In the old days, people actually wrote notes on paper and sent them to each other. I guess that's how they jammed.
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I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.
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It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.
