Court McGee Quotes
I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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When you're a director, and you look at Scorsese's work, he's always challenging us to push the envelope and break the rules. Someone like that is necessary and a godsend.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.
