Kerry Greenwood Quotes
Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've never been a partier.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
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Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
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Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.
