Charles Kennedy Quotes
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.
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Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?
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I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating.
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My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
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To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
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As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in which I was brought up. No one can fail to be uplifted by great cathedrals - such as that at Ely, near my home in Cambridge.
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We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.
