Mark McKinnon Quotes
Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
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What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.
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As a kid, I had to be funny.
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Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
