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.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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They were very much the same, each attempting to force his picture of reality upon me and neither giving a hoot in hell for how things looked to me.
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I think the worst thing you can do is blend in. Why would you ever want to blend in?
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.
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I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love.
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The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.
