Mark McKinnon Quotes
Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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I don't like controversy.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
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I'm an outsider.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
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Make positive effort for the good.
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I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my movies were changing. They became much more open to dialogue.
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Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.
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I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
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Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
