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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I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.
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If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
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If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.
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Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.
