Charles Kennedy Quotes
The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.
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Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
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Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
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The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.
