Charles Kennedy Quotes

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

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• We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Kings

• I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Life
  • America
  • Spirit

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Myself

• No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Racism
  • Soccer
  • Nationalism

• There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • You
  • Win

• In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Country
  • Past
  • Birth

• In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • History
  • Science
  • Respect

• I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Summer
  • Addiction
  • Bali

• My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Father
  • Small
  • Health

• I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Job
  • City
  • Mysterious

• I've always said it: I don't want to be the only Columbian playing on the PGA Tour, so, guys, just play some good golf and come join me here.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Good
  • Me
  • Golf

• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Think
  • Me
  • Word

• Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
  • Look
  • Hell

• I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.

  

  Rainey Qualley
  • Career
  • Exciting
  • Awards

• Capitalism is an art form.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art

• I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  

  Plato
  • Work

• The world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I'm going to keep not caring.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • World
  • Caring

• I took a lot of pride, honestly, in hiring these young guys, that not only to become future head coaches, but I wanted young guys that could help me - guys that can coach, guys that could study, guys that loved it, that would do it for nothing. That's how I got into coaching with the 49ers when John McVay hired me.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Help
  • Future
  • Study

• Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Men
  • Story
  • Liberty

• If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

  

  Charles Kennedy