Kenneth Kaunda Quotes
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
Quotes to Explore
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.
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'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'
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My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
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The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
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In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
