Kenneth Tynan Quotes
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.
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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
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I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.
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Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.
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What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.
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Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
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A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
