Jim McKay Quotes
Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
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Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.
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The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.
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I challenge any American family to think about what they would do if they were invaded by a hostile force. If tanks pulled up outside their house, and there were armed men inside, would they send their kids out? A lot of Americans would fight that to the end.
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Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
