Jim McKay Quotes

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

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• I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Person
  • Type

• To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Class
  • Greek

• I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Media

• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Citizen

• I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Something
  • Abundance
  • Tune

• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Man
  • Being
  • Silly

• My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• 'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Press

• A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Goals
  • Soccer
  • Meant To Be

• Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Rights
  • Flow

• It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Motto
  • Be Yourself

• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Way
  • Start
  • Luck

• Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Love
  • Today

• I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Goal

• My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • She
  • Father
  • Me

• I don't stay in accent or anything, but internally, I get quite dark and destroy myself a little bit. But that's what I do, and I enjoy it. It's how I do my work.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Work
  • Dark

• For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Body

• Finding one good script is a huge challenge. So I do a film whose script comes and grabs me. Once I finish that, I look forward to the next movie.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Movie
  • Challenge
  • Script

• I actually went to see 'Rushmore,' and I came late, and I missed myself. It was great, that scene. I caught that scene the other day on TV, funny enough, the first scene that you see with Jason Schwartzman and myself, where we talk about his grades. That's a brilliant scene, and I have to say, we play it brilliantly.

  

  Brian Cox
  • Great
  • Funny

• I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

  

  Jamie Redknapp
  • Positive

• One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

  

  Jim McKay
  • Movie