Mike McGavick Quotes
At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
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I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
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Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.
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I try to do my best.
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At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.
