Mark McKinnon Quotes
My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.
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Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. (p. 80)
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My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, and often we couldn't get the resources that would excite our students about learning.
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I was raised in a very blue-collar family.
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My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.
