Mike McCarthy Quotes
You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's my big-picture focus.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.
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I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media can put African-American women in the background. Then, unfortunately, what happens is, subconsciously, our culture begins to assess that as reality.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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In a weird way, hockey is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.
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If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
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I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.
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I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.
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You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's my big-picture focus.
