Kenneth Tynan Quotes
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
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Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.
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I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.
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One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
