Mark McKinnon Quotes

A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.

Mark McKinnon

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You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.

Michael Eisner

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Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.

Robert Dallek

WarEngineeringToo MuchComfortable

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

LifeGoodHeartManPurposeWorth

Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.

Ruth Negga

HeroEverythingHerObsessedBase

Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something that needs to be realized, that we're tested.

Joy Harjo

LoveThinkSometimesWantSomething

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

Jay Leno

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I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead.

Donovan

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I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

Clint Black

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I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

Anthony Geary

SaidCircumstancesAlwaysOperaSoap

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

Ashley Judd

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The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain.

Sebastian Thrun

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We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.

Reuven Rivlin

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