Madison McKinley Quotes
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Everything can be satirized.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
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For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.
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I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?
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We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
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I love the east village reverse snobbery...classic.
