Donald McKay Quotes
To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.
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Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.
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It's just a really cool deal to be a character in 'WWE 2K17.' Whether it's competing on Nitro or Halloween Havoc, to have me as an available character... it's a tribute.
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We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national parks, and cherished places and keep the public from enjoying them.
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
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To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.