Mark McKinnon Quotes
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.
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Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.
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I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.
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Interviewed by CNN's Christiana Amanpour about his current feelings regarding blame for the September 11th attacks, and whether or not he still feels as he did when he made the conversial statement cited above (8 May 2007) (video recording). This statement attesting that he still blamed so many was made one week before his death.
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Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.
