Lyman Corbitt McAnally Jr. (Mac McAnally) Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
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I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance.
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If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders.
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The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
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Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.
