Charles Kennedy Quotes
There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.
Quotes to Explore
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
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I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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You have a person there in Senator McCain that has an integrity in him and will stand up for the political process.
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Together we are building a new Mexico.
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I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.
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I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.
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Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
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God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.
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We will gather images and images of images up till the last, which is blank. This one we will agree on.
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There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.
