Mark McKinnon Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.
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Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
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I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
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The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.
