Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.
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Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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I think the word 'diverse' is a cancerous word because it's life. It's a PC way of saying 'non-white,' and it ultimately suggests that white is the standard.
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.
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I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
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Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
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I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.
