Charles Kennedy Quotes
Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
Quotes to Explore
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.
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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.
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You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
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Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
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A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
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Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
