Mark McKinnon Quotes
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I never was a very good singer.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
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I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.
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I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
