Charles Kennedy Quotes
We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
Quotes to Explore
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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If Barack Obama goes on to win the election, there will be plenty of ink and video spent on chronicling the historic nature of the turnout among young voters and African-Americans. But as important as both constituencies have been to Obama - particularly in the primaries - it's Hispanics that could be putting him over the top on Nov. 4.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.
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I think it's always super exciting to watch something before you can see it in theaters.
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The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
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We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
