Jeremy McKinnon Quotes
You've sunk lower than I've ever seen, and even though you deserved this. I tried to catch your fall.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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If I am just, like, on a run by myself, I've never been stopped. Even if I'm at Target buying my own action figure, people would not believe that it's me. I actually was like, 'This is me!'
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You rebel not only for what you can achieve, but for who you become. In the end, those who rebel require faith - not a formal or necessarily Christian, Jewish or Muslim orthodoxy, but a faith that the good draws to it the good. That we are called to carry out the good insofar as we can determine what the good is.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn't just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.
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Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.
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You've sunk lower than I've ever seen, and even though you deserved this. I tried to catch your fall.
