Jim McKay Quotes

I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.

Jim McKay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 24, 1921 - June 7, 2008

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I get bored watching action movies.

Jeremy Sisto

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I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.

Matthew James Thomas

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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

Donald Knuth

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My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

Bob Feller

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Arthur Helps

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I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

William Gibson

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I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

Philip Kearny

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I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It's a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren't in your hands.

Sushant Singh Rajput

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Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

Phaneesh Murthy

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Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not.

Tom Brady

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Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

Tina Brown

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The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.

Marion Cotillard

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