Michael McKean Quotes

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

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• I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Moment

• A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Goal

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Movies

• I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Judge
  • Outspoken

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Safe
  • Worlds
  • Untrue

• A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Stupid

• I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Google

• I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Consistency

• My December is typically one big, sweaty 'wintry mix' blur, not a punch-laden, heartwarming mixer.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • December

• We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Men
  • Art
  • Training

• You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Live

• Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

  

  Kevin McCarthy

• If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Sleep
  • Mistake

• "I love you," he said, his voice almost musical with happiness. She shot him a scowl. "Isn't saying that a bit dangerous considering these aren't wooden swords and the ends aren't even taped?" He laughed.

  

  Christie Craig
  • She
  • Voice
  • Musical

• My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Blonde

• Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Men
  • Children

• Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

  

  Michael McKean
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