Charles Kennedy Quotes

Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

Charles Kennedy

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Said
  • Employees

• You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Too Much

• I have to grow with my audience.

  

  Ice T
  • Audience
  • Grow

• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Career

• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Friendship
  • Two
  • Pity

• The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Security
  • West
  • They Say

• Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Run
  • Tough

• I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Worry

• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Done
  • Art
  • Help

• I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • London
  • Fast
  • Brazil

• You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • People
  • Want
  • Famous

• Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Remember
  • History

• I like to play as a No. 10. I think I have more freedom offensively. For Belgium, we have full backs who run hard and create a lot of space, which is good, and I like to play there.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Space

• If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Safe

• I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I was always royalty. My mother always said, 'I don't know where you came from'. I didn't have their value system. And I always lived beyond my means.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Movie
  • Mother
  • Value

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Rights
  • Anybody
  • Okay

• I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Instrument
  • Drummers
  • Sidetracked

• I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • No Doubt
  • Addition
  • Channels

• I'm very easy-going off court, but I really want to win once I'm walking on to the court.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Walking

• No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • People
  • Evil

• Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

  

  Charles Kennedy