Kerry Thornley Quotes
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
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If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
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You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
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I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.
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At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
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I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.
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A lot of people in the NBA don't even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
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There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.
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The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
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You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody.
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My favorite candy bar is a PayDay.
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You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
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Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
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I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
