Jim McKay Quotes

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

Jim McKay

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• I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Young

• Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Know
  • Me
  • Movies

• When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Start
  • Try
  • Back

• Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Acting

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • People
  • Today
  • Forget

• Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Obstacles

• From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Always
  • Beginning
  • Flow

• The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Language

• I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • Part

• The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • High
  • Leadership
  • Living

• Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Broken
  • Will
  • Once

• I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • You
  • Coward
  • Cautious

• I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Life
  • Surgery
  • Plastic

• When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Politics

• A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Men
  • May
  • Man

• As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Character
  • Career
  • Myself

• The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Question
  • Day

• Get up, Get up, Get up, Get up, let's make love tonight Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, 'cos you do it right.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Up

• I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little disillusioned with education. It wasn't giving me what I wanted it to. I needed freedom to create and do the things that I wanted to explore, and it wasn't really doing that: it was still very prescriptive.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Freedom
  • Giving
  • Education

• We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Literature
  • Expectations
  • Excellence

• Read each tweet about 95 times before you send it. Look at every Instagram post about 95 times before you send it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • You
  • Look
  • Before

• It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Running
  • Seems
  • Satisfaction

• I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

  

  Jim McKay