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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This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
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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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Donald Trump has put some professional people around himself. Experienced. Successful. I know a lot of people seem to think that success and experience are reasons you shouldn't serve in public office. But they are knowledgeable and smart, and they've been around the world.
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One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
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Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
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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.
