Jim McKay Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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My father had very little formal education.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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A president's power is limited. We need to vote down the ballot as well, from your councilman all the way up to your governors and congressman.
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I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.
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Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.
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Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks.....time meandered back and forth between reality and myth.
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You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.
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Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.
