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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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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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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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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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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Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.
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We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.
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Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself
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Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
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We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.
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Maitre d's are at the financial spigot of the restaurant, meaning they control who gets in and who doesn't, but aside from that, they don't do anything. And yet they get paid as much as the highest-paid people in the place.
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I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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I love just going into stores and testing fragrances. The smell of a fragrance is kind of like hearing a song, it makes you feel something that's really unique to you and can be quite exciting.
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I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.
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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.
