John McKinley Quotes
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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I don't like to look typical.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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The majority of my audience has always been women.
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Digital has really made the fashion industry a lot more transparent. So people can see and understand how the industry really works, and participate in an industry that was very inaccessible to people. The only thing that people used to see before was the end product. Anyone can participate in it now.
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I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.
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We are so obsessed with the Net and technology that we forget the message... We imagine to be able to do anything, and our software helps us believe we can... But we must move beyond the 'how' to reconsider the 'what' and the 'why'.
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This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!
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My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I never met my grandmother, but I carry on her name - her exact name, Eva Vertes - and I like to think I carry on her scientific passion, too.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
