Winsor McCay Quotes

Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.

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• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • American
  • America

• Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Knowledge
  • Problem
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• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Actor
  • Studied
  • Lee Strasburg

• And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Trying
  • Sound
  • Musicians

• My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • Control
  • Drug
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• 'I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder.'

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Wonder

• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Home
  • Growing

• I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.. ..victory after victory, laughing.. Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. she pauses ..My mother had victories. her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • She
  • Happy

• I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • People
  • Writing
  • Guy

• In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • People
  • Acceptance

• You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard this song?' then I don't think it's worth it. The only way to get your music out there, is for someone to tell their friends about it.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Song

• No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Good
  • Today
  • Interesting

• After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Real
  • School
  • Age

• I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

  

  Maury Yeston
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• To me, speed is really about convenience.

  

  Marissa Mayer

• Don't get me wrong: 'America's Next Top Model' is fantastic. They've done 20 seasons, so they've obviously done something right. But I think what ensures that the winner of 'The Face' will become a working model is the prize - a year-long contract with a cosmetics company is huge.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Long
  • Done
  • America

• Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom
  • Aphorisms

• I pledge to the people of Alabama to continue the same level of leadership as Jeff Sessions in consistently fighting to protect and advance the conservative values we all care about.

  

  Luther Strange
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Leadership

• Within this very myopic perspective, immigrants fill the labor slots that need filling, and those foreign-born workers play no other role in our country’s cultural, political, social, or economic life. Our children’s schools are unaffected, the welfare state is untouched, the balance of political power is unchanged.

  

  George J. Borjas
  • Country
  • Role
  • Immigrants

• I'm just fortunate to get to sing songs composed by such great musicians. It's a bonus that the songs have been received well.

  

  Mohit Chauhan
  • Musicians
  • Fortunate
  • Received

• If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Certain
  • Uncertainty

• Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.

  

  Winsor McCay
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