Alan Loy McGinnis Quotes
If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.
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What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.
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In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.
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I am a very hopeful person.
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I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.
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'Longmire' is an incredibly hard shooting schedule because the locations are usually an hour away every morning, and I come home every weekend. I fly back to L.A. for about 26 hours a weekend, just to touch base back at home. It's a lot of work. It's four really intense months.
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Off camera, I'm, like, chill and very laid-back. I don't know if the word is 'shy,' but 'reserved.' I'm always thinking.
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“The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.”
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.
