Jim McKay Quotes
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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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.
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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.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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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.
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'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.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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Anymore cutting and the movie would be as silly as cutting a condensed Reader's Digest novel.
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The automobile crash was... devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about... It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.
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Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.
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The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
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It's wonderful to do these great blockbusters and bigger pictures, but my heart is always with true stories.
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One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.
