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 always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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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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If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.'
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
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Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
