Max McKeown Quotes
You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.
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Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.
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It's a pretty important conference regarding Internet trends, because people are talking a lot about what's really happening. Not just the technology, but what it means for our culture in general.
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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
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You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
