Charles Kennedy Quotes
Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy.
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I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.
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We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.
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I think I've been inspired by Chris and his ability to be raw and genuine and admit flaws and let it be whatever it is. That's something I'm trying to do, too, is just be real... That way ends up being very healing with people.
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One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.
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Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.
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I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.
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If I had been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
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I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.
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Don't throw out buzz words without really knowing what is going on behind it.
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Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy.
