Charles Kennedy Quotes
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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.
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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.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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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.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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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.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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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.
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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.
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I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
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I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.
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That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?
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Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.
