Charles Kennedy Quotes
The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
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I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.
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The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox News - I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with me. That hothouse of back-and-forth argument and - and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to America.
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I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
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The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.
