Mark McKinnon Quotes

The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Up
  • Light
  • Me

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Place
  • Anxiety
  • Youth

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Around
  • Ever
  • Merle Haggard

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Corruption

• Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Work
  • Great
  • Saying

• I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Religious
  • Hair
  • Never

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• 'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Heart
  • Strong

• There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Mistakes

• Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

  

  Alexis Herman
  • Good
  • Today
  • College

• For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • World
  • Good
  • Free

• I wonder whats wrong with me. Sometimes I just keep wanting to go deeper and deeper into the world of self destruction. Like as if I want to see myself fail completely and disappear.

  

  Daul Kim
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Prayer
  • Perception
  • Silent

• The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • World
  • Powerful